http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/31268_1.jpg Any other examples known ? The answer is yes. I included an short article in the Dec 2006 issue of RAILWAY PHILATELY. An envelope sent to Morcambe had an EdVII 1d stamp which had surprisingly been cancelled with a BERLIN-HAMBURG Bahnpost ...

I am surprised that anyone found it necessary to acquire a certificate for this item. It is fairly obvious what it is. You describe it as a 'wrapper' but the certificate describes it as an 'entire'. An ENTIRE is a complete letter including the wrtten contents. It was standard practice to fold a shee...

your description is brief - no mention of stamps on the cover or lack of them. I have a collection of Cameroon (Kamerun) material and have often noted German 'yacht' type stamps of the Kamerun being cancelled at Southampton - I followed this up at the time and found a lot of mail from west africa wa...

http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/2027_1.jpg Why do you think it might not be a genuine maltese cross ? I have clicked on the stamp image and enlarged it on my computer so that it fills the screen. It is clearly the product of a handstamp. It is a very nice neat clean four margin sta...

Early letters were frequently delayed in the post and postmarks, intoduced in 1661, were specifically designed to prevent this happening although they were only applied in London at first. The first marks were circular and only included only the day and the month. 'Poste Haste' ot just 'Haste' were ...

http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/1985_1.jpg Hi Theo, The Stamford Mercury newpaper precancelled the stamps on their wrappers so the example shown is a definitely a precancel. The firm had a group of clerks employed to precancel the wrappers and they were paid per quantity done. The ...

Your example went back 330 years but I can more than double the time travel with this registered cover which is postmarked over 700 years out of date. (I have no idea how it was delivered seeing it hasn't yet been posted !)