PAPER & POST
Letters, envelopes, documents, printing, paper, type, ink
all of these fascinate me. The smell, feel, texture and tone. The style of writing, the language, the structure, the abstract layout and the variety of marks, scribbles, lines, blotches and seals,; you can almost touch the history.
Each one of these are unique, of there time and forever a link between past and present.
Beautiful
1734 Bond document for Good and Fallett of Great Houghton,
Northamptonshire
Glasgow to Edinburgh, 24th May 1785
France, year 8 (1799) of the Republic, accounts letter. Note the use of 'Citoyen' (citizen) instead of the usual Monsieur.
The letter on the right reads as follows:
Mr lloyd,
Sir
When my traveller was in Ludlow, he then had some conversation with you respecting Mr Mafseys affairs, and as he informs me, they were to be settled in November, you will oblige me by saying what state they are in, and when I may expect the money.
I am respectfully etc,
William Norris.
Manch(ester) 6th Dec. 1802
6th December 1802, letter concerning monies owed.
1806 Austria Tyrol, Innsbruck invoice,
1820, 3d to Ludlow cover
1827, tax and duties reminder
1827 August 9th, French document regarding the death of Captain Edward Homewood aged 33 of the 3rd Regiment of Dragoons and details of his repatriation to England
July 1838 red/ orange MANCHESTER to Paris "Per Calais" with a 19 decimes? charge
1839, Invoice from glove makers W&A Falconer of Glasgow
Receipt to M. Guerin et Fils for the sum of 3,000 francs, 18th February 1841
"Tombestone" cancel 22nd october 1842, with a 4d charge in red. Envelope only, but there is a small note inside mentioning a surgeon named
J. Coleridge of the Madras Estate who is to be "... admitted to the benefits of the Lord Clive (of India) Fund"
GB, 2nd june, 1843 PAID, tax and revenue demand. The envelope appears to have been used twice with previous address struck out.
14th october 1844, turnpike interest received note.
9th June 1848, M. Guerin et Fils cover
1848, receipt for water rent, the sum of 7/6 with the remaining 7/6 due on the 1st July 1848 by a Mr Davenport of Ashton Road, Manchester
France:
The letter above was sent within the 'Poste Rurale' at St. Jean de Losne (Cote d'Or) on the 26th January 1848 inviting M. Francoise Viard, an innkeeper at Trouhans within the commune; to attend the Maire on the 26th January in response to a complaint made against him of 26th December 1847.
The front of the letter itself shows a CL mark, always in RED and referring to "Correspondance Locale'. The mark was introduced in 1830. The single vertical line indicates a ONE, referring to 1 decime (10 centimes), always in ink and for letters up to 7.5g in weight.
G.B. Letter 1851 to Lord Torphichen of Calder House, Scotland re railway line. |
1854 entire letter Lyon to Turin. Double rate 10 decides to pay on arrival.
Marriage Licence 1854, Aynho Northamptonshire, William Francis Sparks & Emma Blake: 'George by divine permission Lord Bishop of Peterborough'
1857, Baden to Liverpool, post paid
1858, Genoa cover, post paid
1859 share certificate issued 22nd November for a £5 share in The Electro-Printing-Block Company Limited. Equivalent to nearly £600 in 2017.
Belgium-1866 KL I 20c blue cover Anvers Duplex 12 via Ambulant Verviers-Coeln
M. J Galofre, Milan, Italy to Montpellier, France, July 1869
Invoice, Switzerland 1870 , Geneva to Martigny
Postcard from 1871 regarding the forthcoming local elections? May 1872. Posted from Salisbury 20th November 1871 |
Accounts letter from Louis LeConte, to M.Guerin et Fils, Lyon, 17th June 1877
Accounts letter, Edinburgh to Leith, 8th November 1878
Railway stock share certificate, Edinburgh 1878
Paris 1886, Advertising postcard
Estate sale leaflet, Houghton Hall, Cumberland, late 19th century. Today it's a garden centre, but the original lodge house at the entrance appears to still be there.
1891, receipt of £1 4/6 for insurance cover fire policy.
1897 Labour Certificate for Benjamin Schofield aged 11
1899 Railway wagon label "ALL SPEED" or Express as it might be today.
1900, Auction listing and details
1900 German entire letter and seal
1901 USA, Allentown National Bank cheque
1902 Austria Hungary, 1000 Kroner note
3 Kopeks Russian, C1905-1918, unused block.
Registered letter cloth envelope, S16, June 1916, Army post office.
1908, LCC examination certificate for Scripture Knowledge
German 50Mark note, 5th August 1914
1914, colliery wagon label, destination Bristol
WW1, 1916 German, POW message card
1918, Ration Paper : on reverse, "Upon production of this Ration Paper at a Post Office, Sugar coupons will be issued for the next ensuing period."
1918 National Ration Book
1919 Italy, note 1st Alpine Regiment, 5th Batalion
1920 Germany 50 Pfennig note
1920 Germany, 100 mark note
1925 Royal Drawing Society examination certificate
Residence permit Austria, Vienna, 1923, Heimatschein
1926 Germany, Driving License for Hildegard Ries aged 26, Berlin.
1923 Germany, Weimar Republic hyper inflation 500,000 mark note
1923 Germany, Weimar Republic hyper inflation 10,000,000 mark note
1925 France, Identity card for a Marie Theresa Verhaeghe a Belgian citizen born in Le Mans, 1884
1930, customer note.
1931 Polish banknote
Public Revenue Cheque, 1931
1932 Greece 5000 Drachma note
1933 LNER railway wagon label
'Tin Can Mail', July 1936, Niuafoou Island, Tonga, Pacific Ocean. The Island itself lacking a deep water harbour for ships thus making it difficult to receive mail and cargo, relied on the 'Tin Can Mail' system where mail was despatched overboard in biscuit tins to be picked up by local swimmers.
A Belgian seaman's identity card issued to a German sailor at Antwerp on 23.12.37. It is a tri-fold card which opens out to 27 x 14 cm, bearing the photograph of the holder and signature. |
1937, furnishing enquiry
1939, Invoice and receipt of payment
1940's LMS London Midland and Scottish railway wagon label
1940's LMS London Midland and Scottish railway wagon label
Australia, 1940, Imperial Reply Coupon to the value of 3d.
Eire, 1943 Official Paid Envelope
1950 My dad's Eagle Club membership card and letter
1951, Festival of Britain LT bus ticket with Clapham Common cancel
Poland 1958 FDC International Geophysical Year FDI 30th September, 1958.
Poland 1958 FDC 7th International Gliding Championships, FDI 14th June 1958.
Poland 1959, World Peace Movement FDC
FDC, First Austrian Airlines flight from Vienna to Moscow, 5th June 1959.
First KLM flight cover, Vienna to Amsterdam, 21st May 1961
CCCP, Soviet commemorative sheet, space 1957 - 1963
Poland 1964, United Workers' Party FDC
East Germany DDR 1966, mini sheet, 50th Anniversary of the 'Spartacus Group Conference' 1916
United Nations 1966, Airmail stationary card FDC
1966, Registered Netherlands postage. EU Migration FDC.
1969, registered mail, Bayern
DDR, East Germany 1972, FDC, "Masters of Tomorrow" exhibition / convention.
1973 Motor Fuel ration book
1973 Netherlands FDC marking 'cooperation'
GB Post Office First Day Cover "Achievements In Chemistry" 1977 Special Cancel.
1976 Denmark to USA registered airmail
Poland 1978, World Sailing Day FDC
USSR mini sheet 1979, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Virgin Lands Campaign
1988 Germany FDC, Leopold Gmelin, Chemist
Netherlands 1980, politicians FDC
1991 Germany FDC, Julius Leber
1995 Netherland FDC, Centenaries
1992 Netherlands FDC, Architects
Aland Islands 1986, Fishing Boat FDC
Netherlands FDC featuring Death Centenary of Vincent Van Gogh unaddressed 6 Mar 1990.
1992, Alekhine Russian Chess champion cover. FDC
GB FDC Royal Mail Postage Label (3 stamps), 1st May 1984.
1993 Slovenia banknote
GB, World Cup Football Championship Korea / Japan - First Day Cover 21st May 2002
GB, 50 years of commercial jet travel, FDC 2002
1992, Alderney, commemorative FDC
2001 Germany FDC, Jewish Museum
GB, FDC 5 stamps QEII 1992 'Happy and Glorious' 40th anniversary of accession, 1952. Designed by Why Not Associates.
GB, 50 years of commercial jet travel, FDC 2002 . Stamps issued as a single commemorative sheet.
1999 Germany FDC, 50 years of the DGB
2000 Germany FDC, 350 years of daily newspapers
2002 Germany FDC, For More Tolerance
2002 Germany FDC, 50 years of Television
2002 Germany FDC, Archeology
2003 Australia FDC, High Court Centenary, Canberra Act
GB, 2004, 150th anniversary FDC commemorating the start of the Crimea war, 1854.
GB 2004, The RSA 250 Years FDC First Day Cover, Edinburgh Postmark.
2005 Australia FDC, Centenary of the Australia Rotary International Society
GB, 2006 Brunel Stamps First Day Cover, Box Tunnel, Box, Corsham Cancel
GB Royal Mail FDC: 300th ANNIVERSARY OF ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL; 13 May 2008
2009 Greenland FDC, Benefit for the Greenland Cancer Society
2011 Germany FDC, Stamp issue dedicated to bereavement, expressing compassion and grief
2017 Australia FDC, 50th Anniversary of Australia's first satellite, WRESAT