Hi Mike,
Good luck with your project. Here are the post marks on the relevant covers that I have:
LONDON, 6:15PM, 11MAY 1937, H
HIGH WYCOMBE, 8:20PM, 11 MAY 1937, BUCKS (There were two different envelopes used, with two different typewriters. My guess is that a whole pane - possibly without the cylinder block - was used. At least 100 covers!)
PENZANCE, 6 PM, !! MAY, 1937, CORNWALL
(Illegible, illegible,)12 MAY, 1937, BIRMINGHAM
MIDLAND TPO, *, 12 MY, 37, GOING SOUTH
BISHOPBRIDGE, 7 - AM, 12 MY, 37, GLASGOW
ST SAMPSON'S, *, 12 MY, GUERNSEY CH IS
VILLE AU ROI, GUERNSEY, *, 12 MY, 37, CH.IS.
UP SPECIAL, 12 MY, 37, T.P.O.
HAMPTON COURT, CAMP, 12 MAY 37, (Illegible)
THE HYDE COLINDALE AVENUE, *, 12 MY, 37, N.W.9. (Registered)
AUDLEM, A, 12 MY, 37, CREWE. CHESHIRE
ST.JAMES ST.BRIGHTON SUSSEX *, 12 MY, 37, 1
Ditto (Registered)
BUCKINGHAM PALACE, *, 12 MY, 37, SW1
CHURCH ROAD PORTSMOUTH, 12 MY, 37, HANTS.
And here is the prize cancellation of them all...
MANCHESTER, 10-PM, 4 MAY, 1937, X
And finally, for your delectation, a letter from the General Post Office to a Mr Grant, dated 1st June, 1937"
Sir, With reference to the latter part of your further letter of the 1st of June, I am directed by the Postmaster General to say that it it known that a certain number of Coronation stamps were sold before the authorised day of issue, despite the precautions taken to prevent such a happening.
The Postmaster General. however, is satisfied that the irregularities were the result of a genuine misapprehension on the part of the officers concerned. I am sir, Your obedient servant...
Nice letter. Pity nobody told the PMG about the Morrisons at High Wycombe!
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