Help with London Receiver "AR" and "Miss Bagust" publication
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2022 10:28 am
I have an undated legal letter from London to Ilminster which has a General Post receiver's mark of what looks like "AR" in a circle. The "A" is quite clear, the "R" less so.
I have been trying to track down the "AR" mark by looking at editions of the London Postal History Group "Notebook" which are available on this website at https://www.gbps.org.uk/information/dow ... tebook.php. There are not many receivers that have a first name beginning with "A" and most of those have surnames that begin with letters that don't match.
I have found two references that match "AR" being Abel Roper, the first in Vol.19 [Oct 1974] says as a footnote that the list of receivers were taken "from the publication by Miss Bagust, the original of which gave both the location of the office and the authority for the allocation". Can anyone please point me to this publication ?
The second reference is in Vol.75 [Dec 1985] which lists "Roper" under the General Office with a date of 1774.
Interestingly the name "Abel Roper" does not appear in the Hugh Feldman list in Vol.107 [Mar 1993].
Further research had unearthed that Miss F. Bagust published "Some Notes on the Small Post Offices of London in the 17th and 18th Centuries" in 1937. Anyone got a copy ??
I have been trying to track down the "AR" mark by looking at editions of the London Postal History Group "Notebook" which are available on this website at https://www.gbps.org.uk/information/dow ... tebook.php. There are not many receivers that have a first name beginning with "A" and most of those have surnames that begin with letters that don't match.
I have found two references that match "AR" being Abel Roper, the first in Vol.19 [Oct 1974] says as a footnote that the list of receivers were taken "from the publication by Miss Bagust, the original of which gave both the location of the office and the authority for the allocation". Can anyone please point me to this publication ?
The second reference is in Vol.75 [Dec 1985] which lists "Roper" under the General Office with a date of 1774.
Interestingly the name "Abel Roper" does not appear in the Hugh Feldman list in Vol.107 [Mar 1993].
Further research had unearthed that Miss F. Bagust published "Some Notes on the Small Post Offices of London in the 17th and 18th Centuries" in 1937. Anyone got a copy ??