Wednesday 21 August 2013

Remaining early serif UDCs - Bruton, Castle Cary, Burnham Somst., Keynsham, ....

There are 32 more early (serif) UDCs, mostly of 29 mm diameter.  Of these, three - Burnham (March 1836), Merriott (December 1840) and Totterdown (March 1844) - are not known used.  Two others, Chewton-Mendip (March 1840) and Saltford (November 1842) have only a single example known.

Bruton's 26 mm diameter UDC was issued on 22nd June 1835.  The partial example below may be the latest known, from 2nd January 1850.

Castle Cary's UDC was registered in the Steel Impression Book on 22nd June 1835 and is known used from March 1836 to June 1846.  The example below is from June 1844.

Burnham Somst.'s UDC was registered in the Steel Impression Book on 7th January 1840 and is known used from 1842-1849  (not to be confused with the earlier March 1836 UDC which has no known examples).  The example below is from October 1843.

Keynsham's UDC was registered in the SIB on 30th March 1840 and is known used from 1840 to August 1849 in black, with a single example known in red from June 1843.  The examples below are from July 1848.

To be continued ....

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