The exceptional written up display collection showing the development of postal districts and full post codes, and the sorting of post coded letters including 1704 entire letter showing the detailed address "Burrell Massingberd Esq att his lodgings in Fleet Street right agst St. Dunstans Church att the Signe of the Diall One. Mr Streets a watch maker on one side and a powder shop on the other"; 1857 P.O letter from the G.P.O to the East Yell...
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The Martin Lynes Collections of Forces Mail, Postal Mechanisation and Holy Land; British Post Offices Abroad from the Mike Kitson Collection; USA, Canada & West Indies Wreck Mail from the Collection of Robin Gwynn, RDP; Boer War; fine Antarctica; Worldwide Postal History from a retiring dealers stock; KUT Polish Camp Mail; Extensive G.B and Irish Postal History with Registered Mail, Railway Letters, Uniform Penny Post and Irish T.P.Os.
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Lot #707 - postal mechanisation Great Britain
1969-81 Display collection written up on 24 pages including Croydon 1969 ident D, 1970-71 ident FF of Croydon and W of Norwich used on inward coding, various coding dots with Croydon uses, anomalous codes, red and black idents, Cambridge code dot size experiments (2), operator idents, Norwich 1976 yellow-green phosphor experiment and 1977 closed circuit TV coding desk experiment with ident 7, 1978 phosphor ident experiment, Sheffield 1978...
Lot #708 - postal mechanisation Great Britain
Covers and fronts mostly written up on pages including a study of 1970-75 coding dots with Croydon uses, errors, missorted mail, ident without any coding dots; spray test cover with blue dots; 1972 ‘Great Britain’ machine; Post Code publicity slogans including Norwich types, publicity leaflets, posters and labels; 1970 dummy mail cover bearing Harrison & Son phosphor label and a mint block of labels; 1978 London F.S A indent; photos of...
Lot #709 - postal mechanisation Great Britain
Brighton Transormas. 1935-68 Display collection written up on 35 pages including 1935 (Sep 17-23) trial period 3, G, Q and R; 1935 (Oct 7) official first day 4 + 1 on inward cover then redirected to Kew and N on an underpaid postcard; c.1959 sheet showing inward and outward groups of idents then in use; multiple idents; idents used on mail from other Sussex offices forwarded to Brighton for sorting; a study of the various differing idents...
Lot #710 - postal mechanisation Great Britain
Brighton Transormas. 1935 (Sep 19 - Oct 4) Covers and cards from or to Brighton sorted during the trial period with idents 8, D (2), J, S or W. Also six other October 1935 transormas from the first month of use, one sent on Oct 8th, the second official day of use. A scarce group. (12).
Suggested price: £ 300-350
Lot #711 - postal mechanisation Great Britain
Brighton Transormas. 1935-68 Covers and cards in a box with many differing idents, several showing multiple idents, missorts, inverted and albino idents, etc. (c.600).
Suggested price: £ 200-250
Lot #712 - postal mechanisation Great Britain
Brighton Transormas. The enormous quantity on covers and cards sorted by ident, the majority from one correspondence of c.1953-58, a few earlier or later, in fifteen shoeboxes. (1,000s).
Suggested price: £ 500-600
Lot #713 - postal mechanisation Great Britain
Norwich. 1959-79 Covers and cards including Post Code cards (3) and sheet of labels, leaflet and slogans, 1968 horizontal rectangular dots, rectangular dots on pieces of ribbon, 1960 continuous packet stamping machine, dummy mail covers with undated Leigh machine cancels (3), various circular dots from 1969 including 1975 trial cover with ident 3, etc. (100).
Suggested price: £ 200-250
Lot #714 - postal mechanisation Great Britain
Luton. 1960-66 Covers to or from Luton with coding dots comprising vertical rectangular dots in two columns (1960, a little stained but scarce), 1961-64 vertical rectangular dots (4), 1965-66 horizontal rectangular dots (5), also a 1965 Luton P.O letter. (11).
Suggested price: £ 600-700
Lot #715 - postal mechanisation Great Britain
Luton. 1960 Hardbound presentation book "Postage Stamps of the Reign of Her Britannic Majesty Queen Elizabeth II" presented by the British P.O to the delegates of the "Management Council of the Consultative Committee for Postal Studies, Universal Postal Union", meeting at Eastbourne. The book contains the 1953-59 Wilding and Castle 1⁄2d - £1 definitives, all regional definitives and the 1⁄2d - 1/3 phosphor definitives, the 1960 Post Office...
Lot #716 - postal mechanisation Great Britain
London F.S. 1970-73 Incoming mail with circular coding dots of the London F.S, most also with black idents (27), and 1977-84 covers and cards with large red SPLSM idents (32), most on outgoing mail to overseas but five examples strangely used on internal letters. Also 1968 cover with circular coding dots and A indent of London W1. (60).
Suggested price: £ 120-150
Lot #717 - postal mechanisation Great Britain
Trials - Southampton/Dundee, etc. Southampton ‘Dollis Hill’ machine trial covers bearing a half or quarter stamp used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the scanner, or unstamped with undated ‘Specimen’ machine cancel; other unstamped test envelopes with rectangular dots and ident L (2) or circular dots and ident T all believed to be from Southampton; 1969 Wiesbaden comparison trial cover with undated Southampton 37 slogan; a rare Dundee...
Lot #718 - postal mechanisation Great Britain
1960s to Recent covers including test mail and trials, framas, MLO commemorative covers and cancels, phosphor tape (with two complete rolls, one blue), dummy mail, etc. A large quantity, all collected for a reason, viewing recommended. (Many 100s).
Suggested price: £ 200-300
Lot #719 - postal mechanisation Great Britain
c.1970 to Recent covers, a very large quantity in several boxes all with various coding dots or OCR machines, careful viewing may repay. (1,000s).
Suggested price: £ 100-120
Lot #720 - postal mechanisation Great Britain
Literature. c.1960 to Recent literature, much of it from the 1960s and 1970s, with technical booklets produced by machine manufacturers, training manuals, publicity booklets, Post Code booklets and posters, etc., mainly G.B but some foreign including items form USA, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Scandinavia, etc. A large quantity in several boxes with many rare and early brochures and leaflets. A very heavy lot, unsuitable for posting....
Lot #721 - postal mechanisation other countries
France. 1960-79 Display collection written up on 44 pages showing various sorting machines, including trials and dummy mail. (72).
Suggested price: £ 150-200
Lot #722 - postal mechanisation other countries
France. 1960s to Recent covers all showing coding bars or idents, including dummy mail, a large quantity in four shoeboxes. (1,000s).
Suggested price: £ 200-300
Lot #723 - postal mechanisation other countries
Germany. 1942-79 Display collection written up on pages including transormas with Berlin-Steglitz 1942 (Oct 7) trial period ident Ae, first period idents (6), second period idents AA and star above AB, third period AY; Munchen Gladbach 1942-43 transormas (4); Direct Sorter machines from Dortmund (red E ident) and Frankfurt (2); Berlin 1958-62 Facer trials (4); Berlin 1959 Direct Sorter dummy mail; Siemens dummy mail with magnetic code I and...
Lot #724 - postal mechanisation other countries
Germany. c.1940 - Recent covers in six shoeboxes, various sorting machines including trials and dummy mail, also some earlier machine cancels with covers and cards from 1859. An extensive lot with some scarcer items, viewing recommended. (100s).
Suggested price: £ 300-400
Lot #725 - postal mechanisation other countries
Netherlands. 1931-32 Covers and cards with first type transormas of Rotterdam, the idents comprising a vertical column of four or more numbers or letters. The written up display on nine pages with c.5mm 1234 in red, c.31⁄2mm 3456789 in red, c.5mm AAAA in red, black, green or violet, BBBB in red, black or violet, CCCC in red or green, c.3mm BBBB and CCCC both in red. (13).
Suggested price: £ 200-300
Lot #726 - postal mechanisation other countries
Netherlands/Belgium. 1932 - Recent Dutch covers and cards with transormas including Rotterdam first type BBBB, later types with single idents, two close or widely spaced idents, three close idents, two pairs of close or widely spaced idents, also later bar codes or magnetic coding including trials and test mail, and a box of Belgium covers with transormas or coding bars. An extensive lot in five shoeboxes. (Many 100s).
Suggested price...
Lot #727 - postal mechanisation other countries
USA/Canada. c.1957 - Recent covers including Silver Spring transormas FDC and commercial covers (4), yellow coding bars of Canada, some test mail, also a few earlier machine cancels and mailomat meters. (100s).
Suggested price: £ 150-250
Lot #728 - postal mechanisation other countries
Rest of the World. c.1940 - Recent covers and cards with transormas from Brazil, Argentina, Israel and Egypt; c.1970 Yugolavia trial stamps and stationery used to test various phosphors; various coding dots and bars, idents or OCR machines from Australia, Switzerland, South Africa, Italy, Brazil, Roumania, Hungary, Russia, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Czechoslovakia, Lebanon, Singapore, Scandinavia, etc, with some dummy mail; also New Zealand...
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