Wednesday, 28 November 2012

Wellington - a few Straight Line cancels

Firstly an introduction from Pigot's  Directory of 1844:
According to the British County Catalogue the earliest handstamps from Wellington are from 1705 - unfortunately I don't have any before 1795.
This entire from 1799 has been charged 1d before the introduction of the Penny Post and when the lowest rate in the General Post was 3d - so was probably a private arrangement with the local Postmaster.

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