A few more Somerset "C"s: Compton Martin, Cottles Oak and Curry Rivel

 Finishing off the Somerset "C"s that I have acquired in the last months, here are a couple of items from Compton Martin, starting with a postcard from 1903 that was posted on Christmas Day, and probably delivered then too.

The next envelope is from 2023 and appears to have the same Compton Martin cancel as the example above from 1903, 120 years earlier !

Cottles Oak is a suburb of Frome - here is a registered envelope from 1978 with Cottle Oak cancelations and a Frome 6 registration etiquette.

Finally here is an envelope, still with its original contents, sent to "Curry Rivel, Taunton" with a manuscript "Insufficient Address".

Compton Dando, Compton Martin

This first sheet is from Compton Dando, with a cutout of a rubber cancel from 1910 and a handstamp from 1979.  The post office closed in 1986.

Compton Martin is known to have used a 24mm "COMPTON MARTIN / BRISTOL" single ring handstamp from 1907 to 1956.  The first sheet has examples from 1910 and 1925 ...

... while this sheet has an example from 1956.  This cover bears a bisect 3d stamp that has been properly cancelled by the post office - is this a philatelic favour or was there a genuine shortage of stamps at Christmas so bisects were used temporarily ?

This final cover is a 1964 first day cover from Compton Martin with "COMPTON MARTIN / BRISTOL" Birmingham cancels (double circle with two line arcs), so-called because they were first issued to Birmingham.