Wednesday 21 January 2015

A couple of Bath Vertical Oval cancels

First, from September 1879 is a Bath 4VOD to Derby on a County Court, Bath preprinted envelope.  The inside flap of the envelope gives details of how payments into Court must be made - in Cash or by Post Office Order made payable to a specific named individual (Mr Edward George Smith).  Cheques or Postage stamps cannot be received.  An interesting opportunity for fraud if your name happened to be Edward George Smith !

Second is an undated Bath 2VOS (or maybe 3VOS) cancel to Shrewsbury.  Based on the postal rate and the lack of any datestamp this must have been Printed Matter.

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