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GB Qv Surface Printed One Shilling Cover

 
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ash38
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Posted 10/10/2024   12:30 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add ash38 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message

This is what I collect, early QV, especially surface printed Sent from my home town Leicester, there's a lot going on with this cover but i'm interested in the red dated mark on reverse and the blue pencil notations,

The cover was sent, unable to be delivered, then advertised to find recipient, when that failed it was returned to sender?
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The red mark onthe left of the back was used at the London Chief Office for mail to be put on the packet boats to America. The 'L' in the centre stands for the outport of Liverpool. This identified the letter was made up in London and not at the outport. The red colour means it was stamped in the morning of 23 May (18)66.
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ash38
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thanks for reply, thats great, the boxed hand stamp and the smudged red stamp would have been applied on the covers return?
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NSK
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Posted 10/10/2024   1:12 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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smudged red stamp


As in the one cancelling the stamp? I wouldnot be surprisedifthat is for 23 May 1866. Maybe someone at the London Chief Office found the Leicester cancel was not cancelling the stamp (clearly). But, really, I cannot say as it is illegible.


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boxed hand stamp


Do you mean the "SENT BACK TO ENGLAND / WITHOUT A REASON / FOR NON-DELIVERY" one?

Yes, it was in use at the Returned Letter Office.
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ash38
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The smudged cancel makes sense, I would have guess the sent back to England was applied in the Uk and maybe the cover is missing a US Handstamp, the cover was advertised and recipient not found, maybe wrong.
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NSK
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Posted 10/10/2024   1:27 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It was, I found it.
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ash38
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Posted 10/10/2024   1:38 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add ash38 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
thanks again for the help, I rate this cover, I was going to research the recipients but doesn't seem much point
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John Becker
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unable to be delivered

Wilmington would not have had city delivery, so more correctly, the letter was not claimed within a few days of arrival and was then advertised on June 27. It still remained unclaimed as of July 30 and was then returned, that postmark being the start of the return journey.
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