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Hi very nice date !

Can you read the name of the sender ?

I've a directory of London for 1839.

Usually people posted to the closest receiving house.

At the bottom it's written 1pyPPaid and this should help on the researches.

This the list of receiving houses where 1pyPPaid is known used on 1840:
( maybe you will find some typos )

Albany Street
Aldgate
Barbican
Belvedere Place
Berners Street
Bishopsgate Without
Blackheath SE
Blackmoor Street
Brick Lane
Brompton Row
Brook Street, Grosvenor Square
Chancery Lane
Charles Street, Westminster
Charlton
Chelsea EO
Chelsea WO
Chigwell Row
Chiswick
Ciapham Common
Clerkenwell Green
Commercial Road East
Coventry Street
Crawford Street
Ebury Street
Fenchurch Street
Fleet Street WO
Fore Street
Fulham
Great Marylebone Street
Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury
Great Russell St, Covent Garden
Great Surrey Street
Greenwich
Gulidford Street
Hampstead NO
Hampstead Road
Hampton Court
Highgate
Holborn Hill
Holloway Road
Homerton
Islington SO
Islington Lower Road
Kennington Cross
Kent Road
Kent Road SE
Kings Road, Chelsea
Kingston
Knightrider Street
Lambs Condult Street
Leadnhall Street
Leather Lane
Little Newport Street
London Road
Lower Edmonton
Manswell Street
Mey Fair
Mile End
Minorles
Mount Street, Grosvenor Square
New Brentford
New Kent Road
New Street, Covent Garden
Norwood EO
Old Broad Street
Paddington
Pall Mall
Piccadilly
Portual Street
Putney NO
Queen Street, Cheapside
Queens Eim
Ratcliff Cross
Regent Street
Regent Street NO
Rothwerhithe
James' Street
Saville Place, Lambath
Shackalwell
Shoreditch
South Audley Street
Southampton Court
Stepney
Store Street
Strand EO
Thayer Street
Tooley Street
Tower Street
Walham Green
Wapping
Whetstone
Whips Cross
Whitechapel Road
Whitechapel Street

Some thoughts, maybe I'm not 100% accurate ..., on this letter from 1844.





It was sent from San Sebastian (Spain, very close to the border of France).

The other red postmark on the front was put at Saint Jean de Luz in France, it was the exchange post office with Spain.

1 / ESPAG. / 1 (ESPAG. = Espagne)
6 JUIN 44
ST JEAN DE LUZ

On the back the black postmark is of Bordeaux.

The letter arrived by ship to UK but the postage rate was not calculated as a ship letter (8d, 1/4, etc).

It was charged as:
- 5d, 1 British rate
- 10d, 2 Foreign rates (for a weight under half an ounce)

so a total of 1/3.

p.s.
It's very common to find letters from the Huth archive that are not "single" letters.

Looks like surname Wilkins done at Bloomsbury square

The 1pyPPaid seems to start with Cha in the top line. From your list could it be

Chancery Lane but looks like a CP after it?
1pyPPaid

Here it is the list from the directory of 1839:




It's a pity that I've at my home in Italy this book
http://www.rossitertrust.com/bookle...eivers.shtml

it shows all the shapes of the postmarks.

Brilliant work Aryeh! I hope you get a commission

I am smelling polynymous Andrea.

BTW, I was bit frustrated for not getting any thanks from duncanvr in another thread https://goscf.com/t/49907 but after reading the first post of duncanvr in this thread, I now get to know his attitude.

Sorry Joy I do say help appreciated at the top of my posts and I do appreciate all members help identifying various postal history items. Thanks for your help to.

I thought the same Joy, is that you Rossi ?

Yesh, that's me!!

The postage rate for this letter:
( 1876 QV LONDON COVER WITH 4 x 1d RED STAMPS & ½d BANTAM TO FRANKFURT GERMANY )


was 5d (double rate, ½oz - 1oz), so unfortunately a ½d postage stamp is missing.

About this letter:
( 1839 HMS HASTINGS SPITHEAD 74 GUN SHIP LETTER CARRIED BY 1ST LIEUTENANT RARE ! )



The letter was posted at the receiving house of Princes st.
It was charged for 2d, because it was sent within the town area of London.
It was redirected within the Town Area of London so the total charge was 4d.

The two red postmarks show the timecodes of 2pm and 6pm.

IF I remember correctly the meaning of the times I try to explain what happened, by this table of 1839:


So posted at Princes st before 12 Noon.
It arrived at the principal office and charged for 2d.
It was then sent out for delivery at 2pm.

It was then redirected to a new place so it went back to the principal office.
2d charge canceled and charged for 4d.
And from there it was sent out for delivery at 6pm.

Thanks very much aryeh for the good info & research, its to bad the ½d BANTAM stamp is missing on the QV cover to Germany. The HMS HASTINGS one is a great pre-stamp and its nice to see how it was written on a ship in port and then carried across town in London. I was researching my item 1828 ST LOUIS TRANSATLANTIC LETTER BY GENERAL J RAMSAY TO LORD RAMSAY IN ITALY it seems to be from St Louis but I wasn't sure if USA as both men in the letter named Ramsay were in Canada in 1828, the letter was posted privately to so no markings from origin.