Keynsham - Double-Arc Handstamps

"Keynsham, spelt K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M, Keynsham, Bristol"

Horace Cyril Batchelor (22 January 1898 – 8 January 1977) was an English gambling advertiser. He  was best known during the 1950s and 1960s as an advertiser on Radio Luxembourg. He advertised frequently as a way to win money by predicting the results of football matches, sponsoring programmes on the station. His spelling out of Keynsham, the town where he operated, made it famous.

The earlier marks of Keynsham have already been covered here.  This next series of posts are going to cover the later marks of Keynsham.  Keynsham came under Bristol apart from a period between 1851 and 1862 when it came under Bath.

Here are some examples from 1851 of a 25mm double-arc dated handstamp, the top one, dated March 1851, going through Bristol and the bottom one, dated October 1851, going through Bath.

This 22mm double-arc dated handstamp from November 1862 went through Bristol.