The cover below, sent in September 1878 from South Petherton to Montacute, was underfranked as it weighed more than 1 oz. It received a framed "More to pay / above ... oz / 929" cachet with a manuscript "1".
The much more modern cover below was undelivered in Yeovil in 1972 and returned to the sender in Norwich. It was addressed to "Petter's Engines Ltd, Yeovil" and was marked "UNKNOWN / AT YEOVIL. / SOMERSET." in a violet framed cachet.
In 1894 the family business James B. Petter & Sons were ironmongers in Yeovil, and hired Ben Jacobs who was instrumental in their business to make high speed steam engines. In 1910 Petter Ltd. became a public company, later moving to Westland and then purchasing the Vickers factory in Ipswich. See
https://www.farmcollector.com/company-history/petter-engine/ for many more details of the history.
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