Sunday, 23 February 2025

Bristol - 1940s

The cover below was from Newton Abbot in Devon to Poona, India in September 1940 and was sent airmail, but was apparently diverted to a Convoy leaving from Bristol with the Air Mail etiquette crossed out and a straight line "BRISTOL" cancel applied.

The envelope below, sent in October 1945, from Bristol to APO 595, was deemed undeliverable and returned to Bristol having gone via Boston, Massachusetts in the USA.

This is another triangle "134" cancel, this time going to the USA.  It is likely to have been sent sometime between May 1949 to October 1950 though could have been as late as October 1957.

And for a little diversion, here are a couple of security overprints on receipts from J.S. Fry & Sons Ltd, the bottom one dated to May 1940 (the date on the top receipt is unclear).




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