Yet more Coaching ephemera

 Yet more ...

More Coaching Ephemera

Here are some more coaching ephemera.  I've found a very interesting website, Carl's Cam, which has details of the stage coaches that used to run in Cheshire, well worth a read.

Red Frome Maltese Cross, July 1840

The cover below, from Frome to Stourton in July 1840, has a red maltese cross.  Thc colour of the cancels were changed to black in January 1841 at the same time that the penny red was issued.

As shown above, the cover is a receipt from John & Richard Mees, Haberdashers and Lacemen.

Another Missent to Bristol Station

The envelope below, from Manchester to Newport, Monmouthshire also received the rarer "MISSENT-TO / BRISTOL STATION" cachet (see here for my previous post on the other example).

Undated "BRISTOL" handstamp, c.1940

 The envelope below is undated but went from Bristol to London around 1940.

Other uses of the handstamp have been when stamps have not been cancelled by machine cancels.

Undated "BATHFORD.BATH / SOMERSET" handstamp & "BATHFORD" 23mm Single Ring handstamps

The Parcel Post receipt below has a "BATHFORD . BATH / SOMERSET" single ring handstamp.  

Other postmarks from Bathford are quite scarce.  Small sub-offices did not use their handstamps other than for receipts, as mail was postmarked at the main office.  The Post Office Savings Bank book below, used between 1910 and 1920, has examples of "BATHFORD" 23mm single ring handstamps.

Envelope "Found open or damaged and officially secured"

The envelope below, from Bristol to London in February 1982, was "Found open or damaged and officially secured".

The contents are still present and were an entry for the Mephisto crossword.

"Tatcho" for the Hair

Below is a postcard sent sometime between 1913 and 1921 advertising "Tatcho" for the hair.

The product had a musical hall song in its honour:

Undated entire from Crewkerne via Taunton to Bristol, c.1759-1769

The undated part-entire below has a "CREWK / ERN" handstamp that appears to measure 27x13 mm, so could match SO 382 which is only known used in 1740 in an Archive or SO 385 known from 1759-1761 also only known in an Archive.

The "TAUNTON" handstamp appears to be SO 751, in use 1759-1769.

The contents of the part-entire are a family tree.

At the bottom of the tree is the marriage of John Blagrove to Ann Cobb which genealogical records indicate happened in August 1745, so the entire must date after that, consistent with 1759-1769.