Bath Miscellaneous

First another Printed Matter item, an envelope sent for ½d within Bath. It was undelivered (not known) and returned to the sender for a further ½d postage due for "Return to Sender".

The contents was a notice of an Extraordinary General meeting of the shareholders of The Bath Theatre Royal Company.

Second is a letter from the Bath Station Sorting Office with "To Pay" labels as a receipt for the customs charge on a parcel.

A couple of Bath Vertical Oval cancels

First, from September 1879 is a Bath 4VOD to Derby on a County Court, Bath preprinted envelope.  The inside flap of the envelope gives details of how payments into Court must be made - in Cash or by Post Office Order made payable to a specific named individual (Mr Edward George Smith).  Cheques or Postage stamps cannot be received.  An interesting opportunity for fraud if your name happened to be Edward George Smith !

Second is an undated Bath 2VOS (or maybe 3VOS) cancel to Shrewsbury.  Based on the postal rate and the lack of any datestamp this must have been Printed Matter.

Wellington

Here is an entire with a nice two-line "WELLING / TON.S" handstamp from 1786.  The postal charge of 5d implies that the route from Wellington to Maiden Newton near Dorchester was not direct !

It is impossible to tell exactly when this pre-printed postcard was sent as Printed Matter.  The 1912 KGV stamp has been cancelled by a Wellington "860" two-bar vertical obliterator.  This cancel is not in Parmenter but similar two and one bar cancels for Weston-super-Mare are described in Parmenter as probably being locally made wooden handstamps.