Let's Look At Letters In Duncanvrs Ebay Shop

As per title,


1835 MARITIME LONDON BOXED PACKET LETTER POSTMARK ON PART LETTER TO ST ALBANS

In that case St Albans is in Hertfordshire, north of London.

The double CDS, I read Jan 1836, in red belongs to London.

About the charge of 2/2 (26d) it was possibly calculated as:

+ 1/3 (15d), packet letter rate by Falmouth from West Indies, America & St Domingo
+ 1/- (12d), inland rate Falmouth - St Albans
- 1d, inland reduction for letters via Falmouth

Above 1835 there's written something, maybe the name of a city ?

1842 TRANSATLANTIC NEW ORLEANS SHIP LETTER MAILED TO HUTH & Co LONDON H/S 2d

The letter is very interesting because it was written from New Orleans and it arrived to UK by ship ... but it was not a so called "ship letter".

In my opinion someone brought the letter to UK in his pocket and then he posted it at the receiving-house of Cornhill.

The letter was then charged for 2d because it was sent unpaid.

The red postmark on the back belongs to the Twopenny post office (district post office) of London.

1826 MARITIME LIVERPOOL SHIP LETTER TO CARLISLE ENGLAND FROM
UNKNOWN COUNTRY

In the beginning the letter was charged for 1/6 (18d) because:

+ 8d, incoming ship letter
+ 10d, inland rate between Liverpool and Carlisle

but then the clerk saw an enclosure inside and so the letter was charged for the double: 3/- (36d)

Tell me all the details about this one

1848 QV MARRIAGE LETTER WITH 1d RED IMPERF STAMP TO CAPTAIN CORMACK AT TYNEMOUTH

1848 QV MARRIAGE LETTER WITH 1d RED IMPERF STAMP MAILED TO CAPTAIN CORMACK AT THE POST OFFICE IN TYNEMOUTH NORTHUMBERLAND ENGLAND. STAMP PLATE 52. INTERESTING LETTER.

I've found an interesting item you are selling:





The letter was sent from London to Inverkeithing and it was redirected back to London.

Inverkeithing was 13 miles far from Edinburgh as it can been seen from this map of 1846:



The postmarks on the back can help to trace a possible route.

Departure from London on 14 Oct at 6:00pm (EF / OC-14 / 1846) and arrival at Edinburgh on 15 Oct at 10:48pm (OCT / A 15 N / 1846).



Departure from Edinburgh on 16 Oct at 5:30am and arrival at Inverkeithing on 16 Oct at 7:00am.



Redirected and charged for 1d with departure from Inverkeithing on 16 Oct at 6:15pm and arrival at Edinburgh on 16 Oct at 9:16pm.
( see previous table, the right column )

Departure from Edinburgh on 17 Oct at 01:09am and arrival at London on 18 Oct at 6:00am.

About this letter some info can be added.


the postmark (the one at the left of the stamp) of the receiving house seems to be TP/EO Strand, but I've my books far from here so I cannot be 100% sure.


IMHO the plate is 1b, it has a very distinctive O of ONE!

You can see all the plates for HK here:
https://www.spink.com/custom/stamps...large/HK.jpg

Thanks aryeh for the valuable added info as I have so many hundreds of qv items I never had time to plate them, Here is another 1d black what is the plate # please also what is the red postmark? Something Borough? I need to sell this one this coming weekend

The plate should be 7:
https://www.spink.com/custom/stamps...large/PA.jpg

The postmark belongs to Knaresborough.

Thanks aryeh now lets pick some more out of my ebay shop

About this letter from 1786



imho the bishop postmark belongs to London:
-/webgil/bishop.html

Castle street can be found in London too.

(map from 1767 from mapco)

Thanks aryeh I wasn't sure with Castle Street because there is one in Edinburgh to. I amended the listing for London and hope it gets some more views.

1826 MARITIME LIVERPOOL SHIP LETTER TO CARLISLE ENGLAND FROM UNKNOWN COUNTRY



The letter was initally charged for 1/6 (18d) as:
- 8d, incoming ship letter
- 10d, inland rate Liverpool - Carlisle

But it was a double letter, it had an enclosed sheet, so it was charged the double 36d, 3/-.

Wish I knew where it came from

1766 RARE LIETFIE (should be Leitfie) LETTER BY JOHN STEILL TO JAMES SMYTH OF BALHARRY IN EDINBURGH



Letter written at Leitfie:


this is from a map of 1783:


The letter was charged for 2d, Act, 9 Anne, Cap. 10 effective 1 June 1711), from Edinburgh within Scotland for any place not exceeding 50 English miles.

I'd guess the letter was sent from Perth, it was ~40 miles far from Edinburgh.

From a map of 1775 we can see a part of the route:

Thanks aryeh my spelling error I should know its spelt Leitfie since my Smyth ancestors were there and at Balharry also seen in the map you showed. Am surprised no one has bought this letter yet.

Hi aryeh can you id the 2/line red postmark under 1st week UPP for this letter?