cover 1816-1980, wonderful collection of mail cancelled on Christmas Day, comprising eighteen entires or envelopes and ten postcards, virtually all showing clearly readable 25 December cancellations or datestamps, mostly from Great Britain, including 1816 entire from the Bishop of Chester to Richmond, 1840, two entires bearing 1d. blacks, 1841 and 1842 entires bearing 1d. reds, 1856 1d. pink stationery envelope with very fine Shrewsbury 'Spoon' cancellation, 1863 mourning envelope to India bearing 1862-64 4d. and 6d, with very fine Winchfield duplexes, 1905 postcard with fine oval "POSTED IN ADVANCE/FOR DELIVERY ON XMAS DAY" datestamp of Manchester, 1954, three envelopes salvaged from the Prestwick aircrash (two different datestamps), the British Commonwealth items comprising Antigua K.G.VI airmail envelope with 5/- franking (year date unclear); Fiji 1898 unaddressed philatelic envelope bearing 1d.; Gibraltar 1906 envelope used locally bearing a vertically bisected 1d. (a rare usage in its own right); mostly very fine and an extraordinary assembly
cover 1816-1980, wonderful collection of mail cancelled on Christmas Day, comprising eighteen entires or envelopes and ten postcards, virtually all showing clearly readable 25 December cancellations or datestamps, mostly from Great Britain, including 1816 entire from the Bishop of Chester to Richmond, 1840, two entires bearing 1d. blacks, 1841 and 1842 entires bearing 1d. reds, 1856 1d. pink stationery envelope with very fine Shrewsbury 'Spoon' cancellation, 1863 mourning envelope to India bearing 1862-64 4d. and 6d, with very fine Winchfield duplexes, 1905 postcard with fine oval "POSTED IN ADVANCE/FOR DELIVERY ON XMAS DAY" datestamp of Manchester, 1954, three envelopes salvaged from the Prestwick aircrash (two different datestamps), the British Commonwealth items comprising Antigua K.G.VI airmail envelope with 5/- franking (year date unclear); Fiji 1898 unaddressed philatelic envelope bearing 1d.; Gibraltar 1906 envelope used locally bearing a vertically bisected 1d. (a rare usage in its own right); mostly very fine and an extraordinary assembly
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