Great Britain : On Steiner Pages.

A menagerie of miscellany......

City of Bradford 1904
Labor omnia vincit = Work Conquers All

Scotland 1911 October Exhibition.


1947 Stamps Exhibition
SCA?
BW & Co ?
U C Scaramanga ?


Mr Watkins (Gummed Label)
Stamp Dealer
Barnet, North London.

National Stamp Exhibition 1947.
See page 48 of the publication:

https://www.gbps.org.uk/information...%202010).pdf

Thanks Jill
Bradbury Wilkinson passed my mind, but then thought "No way!"



Serendipity !
Also in that monograph.

B.W. & Co Ltd. = Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co, Limited. Printers of intaglio stamps for the GPO.

Kultur has passed Here
Typo: Kulture


Possibly 2nd Boer War
Confirmation BO = Branch Office in this instance?


(i) Greatest number of Army Post Offices at work, 71.

(ii) Average number of articles received each week at Cape Town: Letters, 190,000, Newspapers and packets, 300,000, Parcels, 8,400

(iii) Heaviest mail received (December 24th 1901): Letters 303,000, Newspapers 368,000, Parcels 31,858

(iv) Value of Postal Orders sold in the field: More than £ 1,000,000

(v) Casualties of APOC: Killed, 2; wounded, 3; died of disease, 45.

(vi) Average weekly account rendered to the Comptroller and Accountant-General, London £400,000

https://www.angloboerwar.com/unit-i...office-corps

My field is Anglo-Boer War 2 mail to PoW Camps in India but I can quote that this British Field Post Office B.O. 3 datestamp (recorded used Mar 28–Nov 29,1901) was actually used by Br. APO 76 which was located at Platrand at the Southern outskirts of Emnambithi (28.4016°S 29.6963°E), SA from Sep 13,1900 to Dec 2,1901.

Thank you very much, Joy.

They were, ergo, subsequent to the battle.

"The Platrand is a long hill on the south side of the town. It was a critical section in the town's defences. The soldiers christened the east end Caesar's Camp and the West end Wagon Hill after features at Aldershot. The British built a number of defensive features all along the mainly north (rear slope) of the Hill the largest being Manchester fort about midway along.

In the early hours of the 6th January 1900 the Boers mounted attacks at both Caesar's Camp and Wagon Hill and a desperate battle ensued until around 17h00 when in a blinding rain and hail storm the Devons mounted a bayonet charge over almost 100m of open ground to finally dislodge the Boers from Wagon Hill"
https://www.battlefieldsroute.co.za...ce/platrand/

Louis Raemaekers was a Dutch cartoonist whose attacks on Germany led to his having to depart neutral Holland for London. His cartoons were published here in various forms - smaller, paperback publications, the bound, hardbacked volumes from which the photos below are taken and a set of 140 cigarette cards produced by Carreras.

Hi Rod,

Further to the SCA stamp exhibition label, Mrs Scaramanga was Ursula Constance Scaramanga.

I found a reference to her as an artist who had applied to the War Artists' Advisory Committee in 1943.

I have a single copy of this label but had never noticed her name at the bottom.

Nice snippets of information....thanks boys




That is possibly why, when I purchased my first scanner, philately
took a huge boost in my enjoyment, I cannot estimate the times I have
misread a stamp, until it arrived in full splendour on my monitor.

To add to the snippets,
the above South African Postmarks, relate to the seige of Ladysmith,
where...
Winston Churchill was a war correspondent, and...
Mohandas Gandhi was a stretcher bearer, with the Indian Ambulance.

Suggested reading, although gruesome, "Hill of squandered Valour"

1924 British Empire Exhibition

wiki

British Foreign Bible Society 1954

1897 Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee.

Postmarks:

British Postal Mail Strike 1971

Postal services were run by the Philatelically minded,
by the non philatellically minded, by the titled gentry, and by the Newsagent on the corner.

Mail came and went by Plane,ship, hovercraft,rail, helicopter, van, underground railway, scooter. and pony and trap.

200 firms and Individuals

C. Halliday and Gerald Rosen

Exeter Emergency Delivery Services
Area Covered : West Country, London and UK.

February 10th 1971. St Valentines day
Rosen Page 33.

Rosen Page 70.

Stumped.
Anyone? Not in Barefoot Great Britain Revenues 1989
Vignette : Sprig of Oak, indicating Strength and Longevity
Google failed for me.
National Insurance Health Service 2/8d +13/4d = 16/-
Cancelled 3rd March 1963