Bath first handstamp 1706

The next series of posts will cover most of the early handstamps from Bath - with a few exceptions, one of the exceptions being the "BATH-X" cross-post handstamp of which only one example from June 1710 is known.

Here is an entire with an example of Bath's first handstamp from 1706, sent to Leith and going via London, picking up a London bishop mark of 24th June in transit.  The earliest known example of this handstamp resides in Bath Postal Museum and is dated 15th March 1705/6.

The entire was written on imported paper from Genoa, as evidenced by the watermark.

This entire was written before the Treaties of Union of Scotland and England (Treaties plural because both Scotland and England had to sign them) - of which, more in the next post !