Dear Mr Lister - Thank you so much for your informative response. The other two airmail covers in the same lot are imaged below. Two additional questions/ thoughts if I may as I am totally ignorant on this stuff. 1. The signed cover is a registered use. Are other registered uses known? 2. Is the &qu...

A unexpected surprise. In a recent Grosvenor auction I purchased a group of 8 railway adhesive covers for an 1894 use to Belgium the lot contained. When I received the lot the attached (unmentioned) 1933 GWR airmail cover was included along with a couple others from the first GWR flight. A quick che...

A draft of a page just completed for a Railway Letter Mail cover is below. The "Immediate" on my cover appears to be in a different ink and handwriting than other manuscript on the cover. Thinking maybe it was applied at London EC office which was .1 mile from address, I discovered that th...

Yes, please do - I have about 20 Railway Letters with Express Delivery in the period before 1934 but this is the first conjunctive use with Express Delivery and I thought it might be worth an article.

my email address is: covers@rfrajola.com

I recently wrote up a draft page of a cover that shows the double 2d railway letter fee that only occurs, in this period at least, when express delivery is requested. Note the 1911 Postal Guide notice of this double fee that I cite above the cover. Does anyone have additional examples of such a doub...