The cover below incurred an 8d postage due on transit at Bristol. An "8d / 134" cachet is in the Steel Impression Book in June 1911, and a different mark is known used in 1952, but this mark is a new one.
The cover is a home-made novelty, being pieces of card imbedded front and back on a piece of green leather. It was franked with a US 2c stamp (equivalent to 1d), which was the international postcard rate from October 1891. However the British Post Office regulations said that postcards had to be on card so it was treated as a Letter, and it was over ½ oz, so the correct rate was 5d (rather than the international single letter rate of 2½d or the international postcard rate of 1d). This gives a deficiency of 4d (5d minus 2c or 1d) hence a charge of 8d for double the deficiency.
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