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UK Old Covers With Signitures Of Famous Persons

 
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Posted 07/05/2015   5:11 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Rafa to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
BISHOP OF GLOUCHESTER (only front side)june 1819



LORD ACHESON, june 1831(only front side)





LORD VERNON , mAY 1833(only front side)



BISHOP OF WORCESTER, Feb. 1835(only front side)



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Posted 07/06/2015   06:23 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add scotzm to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
They are nice FREE FRONTS. The Bishop of Worcester (pronounced "Wooster") front is particularly nice as it has the Bishop's seal.
To people who don't know, the Bishops signed with their first name or initial then the place where they were bishop so that Bishop of Gloucester (pronounced "Gloster") Henry Ryder signed "H Gloucester" for instance.
Note also how the dates were written in those days... June Seventeen, June Twenty seven, May ten, Febry one. No ordinals such as May tenth etc.
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Posted 07/06/2015   5:30 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Mike33 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I grew up just outside of Worcester, MA in the US and that's basically how we pronounce it too. But not the double o sound like MOO or TOO. The outsiders would pronounce it as it looks "worchester"

Nice covers BTW
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I live near Worcester, MA, too and here's a pronunciation glossary of the various local dialects (a/k/a New England accents) with a comical twist:


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Worcester

WAR-CHES-TAH
This is the incorrect way to say it. Someone from the south who doesn't know the proper pronunciation, trying to fake the accent.

WOO-STAH
This is the correct way to say it. This is the pronunciation used by most of the residents of the city and surrounding areas.

WIS-TAH
This is the correct way to say it. This is the pronunciation used mostly by people north of the city.

WOO-STER
This is the correct way to say it. This is the pronunciation used by people who have lived elsewhere and either now live in Worcester, or somewhere else.

WUSS-TAH
This is the incorrect way to say it. is the pronunciation used by most of the residents of the city and surrounding areas when they're putting down the city.

WAR-CHEST-ER
This is the incorrect way to say it. This is the pronunciation used by people from south of the Mason-Dixon line who have seen it in print. These are generally the people you hang up on when they call you, since they're telemarketers.

WAR-SES-TER
This is the incorrect way to say it. This is the other popular mis-pronunciation I hear often, this one I understand a little better, it sort-of looks like it should be said this way.


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Edited by wt1 - 07/06/2015 8:56 pm
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Posted 07/07/2015   06:38 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jimjung to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I have a whole collection of these. I haven't counted but I have around 50 or so? Here are a couple. It was a hobby to collect these in the early part of the 19th Century. Someone has written the names of the signatory on the front in ink, possibly the original collector.



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Posted 07/08/2015   2:40 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add scotzm to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

Two of my FREE FRONTS... I always like connections and these two are connected.

The connection is Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson.

I got the first one as it had the handstruck 2 plus the boxed To PAY 2d ONLY. A closer look showed it addressed to Countess Nelson at her home at Trafalgar House. She had married the elder brother of Nelson.
The second FREE FRONT was written by Nelson's brother. On Nelson's death at the Battle of Trafalgar his brother was awarded the title of 1st Earl Nelson and he also inherited the dead Nelson's title of Duke of Bronte (Duca di Bronte).



Incidently, on the pronounciation of places. A village in Scotland is spelled FRIOCKHEIM and is pronounced Freekum... go figure!

edit...the first one is not strictly a FREE FRONT but is a signed FRONT.
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Posted 07/12/2015   02:56 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Kimo to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
When on considers the cost of posting a letter combined with the need for both the sender and the person to whom it is being sent to be literate one would expect that a larger than normal percentage of letters of this vintage would be to and/or from people of some position.
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The Free franking privilege was available for many of the wealthier people of the day... Members of Parliament, Lords in Parliament, Bishops etc sitting in Parliament and also many government officials. They had used this privilege to great excess in some cases. In 1840 the Free franking was severely curtailed and the penny post was introduced... in 1840 one penny would be equal to three pounds today.
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