Help Identify Two British Postmarks

These two have stumped me. The first is from 1898 and quite clearly Liverpool. I cannot find the Post Office though. The partial word is ---- ellsands. Anyone know this one?





The second one may turn out to be a revenue use on a cheque or document. If it were a Canadian stamp with the "&" in it, I would be assuming an RPO but I don't know whether these existed in Britain.

What is clearly legible is Glasgow & Carlisle and 1896. Less definite on the bottom of the stamp is ---- ing tender. (The last word is what leads me to think is might be a revenue cancel). Any ideas?

Glasgow & Carlisle Sorting Tender = railroad cancel, and extremely rare to find the entire cancel on a single stamp, like yours.

Blundellsands (Liverpool)

Source: http://philatelicweb.com/pmks/index.php

Second source: Blundellsands is an area north to the city of Liverpool and to the west of Crosby with Hightown and Little Crosby to the north of itself, Great Crosby and Thornton to the east and Brighton-le-Sands and Waterloo to the south. (Wikipedia)

Blundellsands Liverpool

Glasgow & Carlisle Sorting Tender (from 1890) 8 pounds
Glasgow - Carlisle sorting tender (from 1885) 12 pounds


Might as well be complete
Glasgow and Carlisle Sorting Tender
(Duplex with numeral 159) 20 pounds


1983 Prices

Thank you for the information. These definitely go into the collection with annotations. Found them while going cross-eyed counting dots in the frame in an old bundle of 100 tied together with strips of old selvedge.

To doug 2222 - Is there a publication you can recommend that will give me more information on GB Railroad cancels? I can try borrowing it through our local Library.

I don't know of a railroad cancel site, but I'm sure there is one. When I saw the cancel, I knew it was railroad, and merely looked it up in the postmark database, referenced above.

Thanks Doug. I guess I am terribly old school because my first instinct is to go for hard copy. I have flagged the site you referred to and can hopefully look things like that up on my own in the future.

Backroads, you might want to try the Travelling Post Office & Sea Post Society at www.tpo-seapost.org.uk

This society deals in all modes of transportation postmarks, land, sea and air <G>.

Chimo

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