Wednesday 7 August 2019

Bath 1761 and 1918

This first item is an entire sent from Bath to London in July 1761, with a "BATH" straight-line handstamp known in use from 1760 to c.1765.

The contents are a request for 200 hymnals and 25 church tracts.

This second item is an envelope advertising Bath Oliver biscuits and with a "BUY NATIONAL / WAR BONDS" Krag cancel from March 1918.

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