Stampless Covers Information And Resources.

Please could somebody help with an online resource for stampless cover Strikes, 1800's london tombstone etc. *** double circle.
thank you

This Type ?

Yes perf12, those are the ones, I will post my cover later, but also would like to get more general information on the cancels of this period. I love the penmanship on the covers of this era.


Thank you

Ray

This; maybe you have it:

https://www.postalmuseum.org/wp-con...ennypost.pdf

page 11:

http://inventario.issp.po.it/dbcoll...2_ellott.pdf

Thank you Perf12 no I did not have that info.
Thanks again


Ray

1850 (Sep. 8) Calcutta to Bedford Mass. via London. Cover with red "Calcutta, G.P.O., Ship Letter, 8 Sep 8, 1850" framed backstamp and matching "India / Paid" framed handstamp, endorsed "Care Baring Brothers & Co, London", red London Paid (10.26) tombstone arrival, red p U.S. STEAMER "ATLANTIC." ship directional handstamp, reposted with black London (10.29) Maltese cross and matching "3 / Cents" rocking debit handstamp, carried by Collins Line Atlantic from Liverpool Oct. 30th to New York arriving Nov. 12th, black "New-York '24' Nov 13" integral exchange debit cds; faulty, Fine and rare, ex-H. Meyer.

I think here :lot's of British stuff…

http://somersetph.blogspot.com/sear...bel/Bathford

Wander around this site:
http://www.philatelicsannex.org/ref...ference.html

Hi Ray. Your very nice cover is not addressed to Bedford, Massachusetts, it is addressed to New Bedford, Massachusetts. These are two very different places there. Bedford is a small town that is a suburb of the city of Boston, about 15 miles to the northwest and was first settled by the English colonists in 1640. New Bedford is the sixth largest city in Massachusetts and is famous for being a port and the home base of many whaling ships in the 19th century. New Bedford was first settled by the English colonists in 1652 and it is about 50 miles south of Boston. I know about the difference since my ancestor was a founder and Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony arriving in 1630 and had been given a land grant from the King of England for the entire Boston area including what became Bedford. I wish he had kept some of that land in the family but unfortunately none of it came down to me. Oh well.

This letter is well-known to the collectors of Indian postal history but it is not a good selection to focus on stampless cover postmarks.

The rectangular INDIA PAID [(Giles SD20a (ex-CX13)/Lowe HS321)] dispatch mark (3cm×1.8cm) of Kolkata, in red, was not exclusively used in the Br. India pre-stamp i.e. pre-1854 era.
This mark was introduced in 1845 but it has been recorded used as late as 1864.

Para. 5 of the Postal Notification dt. April 20,1845 issued by LJH Gray, Postmaster General, Bangla Circle (1844–45) states that Steam postage on letters for US or British Colonies in America, or the West Indies (unless addressed to Agents in GB) cannot be prepaid in India, whether sent by way of Marseille, or via Southampton.

Also Para 7 of the same Notification states that Letters for any foreign country, directed to an Agent in England, will ve received or disposed of, as if addressed to GB.

Since this letter was endorsed to get it forwarded by the Forwarding Agent Baring Brothers and Company, London, England to USA from Southampton, via Liverpool, steam postage upto Southampton could be and was paid in India, which was 8A for letters weighing upto 14.18gm (½oz), the rate in effect from March 1,1844 to September 30,1854.