Hand drawn and Pictorial Envelopes
Sketch posted from Pembroke Docks: December 27th 1938
153869
An uncreased envelope with an Artist at Work.
The 1 1/2d stamp has been incorporated in to the design.
Very competently sketched and sent to Burford;
the stamp tied unusually by a Pembroke Docks date stamp for December 27th 1938.
There are no postal markings on reverse.
The cat is about to sample the water from the Artist's pallet!
The brown marks at the bottom of the envelope are very much fainter than the scan suggests.
An attractive item sent less than 9 months before WW 11 began.
Price: £28.00
NB: in World War II Pembroke Dock became
the world's largest flying boat station and home base to airmen from many countries.
Rare Hydropathic Hotel Ltd Enevelope from Peebles in 1913
153845.
A very rare illustrated clean envelope from the Hydropathic Hotel in PEEBLES to Aberdeen,
August 28th 1913. The envelope was roughly opened but it is intact.
On the reverse flap is a superb printed advertisement for the Hotel.
There is a vignette with a distant image of the Hotel;
a printed statement of it being a Kuranstalt specialist Hotel and the phone number: No.2.
One wonders who was the first in1913 to have a phone number in Peebles before the Hotel:
perhaps it was the Police or a local Hospital?
A very rare item for which we have failed to trace another example.
The internet has graphic pictures of the original Hotel burning down in 1905.
It was rebuilt and reopened in 1907.
The present day Hotel is very much as it was afrer it was reopened.
There is much information on the internet that would enhance the description
and make it an interesting and memorable display item.
Perhaps it would encouage those who viewed it to visit the Hotel or the equivalent!
An attractive and ery rare survivor :a superb display item.
Price: £45.00
Watercolour of a Dorchester rural scene: sent from Sheffield 1911
153826.
A peaceful rural watercolour scene captured by the artist on a postcard
sent from Sheffield to Southport, May 26th 1911.
An attractive item with a background of buildings on the skyline.
The artist has written Dorchester at the bottom right corner.
Price: £28.00
153826.
An Edwardian postcard sent from Tavistock to London, January 13th 1909.
On the reverse is a fine drawing of a railway line and surroundings.
Simply drawn, indicative of a competent artist.
The man waving a flag, red?, on the viaduct: trying to warn/stop a train.
The signal is down therefore the train should stop.
Price: £24.00
Hand drawn Edwardian postcard sent from Tooting to Clapham
153828.
A fine pen and ink drawings of an oriental river or lake scene. on an Edwardian postcard, signed by TRUDA.
The card was sent from Tooting on April 5th 1906? and the message on the card from Truda:
the same name as on the drawing and clearly the name of the Artist.
An attractive item.
Price: £25.00
Silver Jubilee of King George the Fifth and Queen Mary May 7th 1935
153792.
A superb Souvenir Postcard of the Silver Jubilee of King George the Fifth and Queen Mary.
On the reverse is the full set of commemorative stamps used on the First Day of Issue, May 7th 1935,
and tied by Bristol cancellations for this date.
The Booth Catalogue, ‘Collect GB First Day Covers’, lists this type of item as 43f
and prices it at £475.00.
A truly superb item of Exhibition quality: one of the best we have seen
or indeed been able to offer.
A rarity so fine.
Price:
£295.00
Coronation of George V1: and previous Monarchs in Stamp Perod
153816.
A fine envelope addressed to Cleadon, nr Sunderland.
The postage paid by the three half penny stamp issued on May 13th 1937
to celebrate the Coronation of George V1 on May 12th 1937.
This item has the previous Monarchs during the adhesive Stamp Period:
Queen Victoria; Edward 7th; George V and Edward 8th.
The cancellation is weakly struck but the date of May 13th 1937 is clearly visible.
The envelope was printed by Jennings Printers of South Shields.
Have not seen such an envelope franked in this way.
Price: £45.00
Entire with pair of 1d's: Number 10 in Cross containg four very fine drawings
The entire is in much finer condition, both front and back, than the scan suggests: it is a cream colour.
The foxing is fainter too.
153813.
An entire, fragile contents but clearly written, from London to Kidderminster.
On the reverse is a London date stamp for MAY 3rd 1844 and one for Kidderminster the following day.
The contents are four drawings by the same artist,
hence the size of folded entire and the postage of 2d paid by a pair of 1d’s, ‘JA-JB’, tied by Number in 10 Crosses.
Variable margins but ‘JB’ tied by a superb Number 10 in Cross:
a very difficult cross to find with such a clear strike and this example is the latest usage we have seen.
The numbers in crosses and MX's were replaced by numeral cancellations in London on May 20th 1844.
Gibbons prices a single at £1,000 on cover.
Multiples of this cross on cover are seldom found.
The 1d’s appear to be from Plate 36.
Scans of the drawings are attached, some are dated: September and October 1843.
The quality of the pen and ink drawings is extremely fine and detailed.
Two of the drawings were of buildings in Heidelberg in 1843.
There is information of the Lea family on the internet: one member was a Carpet Manufacturer in Kidderminster.
This could enhance the descriptions for the Displaying of this remarkable and unique item.
Price for the four drawings and the franked entire: £125.00
A hand drawn sketch of Music Hall Artists in 1911
153712.
A fine postcard, some light wrinkling on a top corner, from Sheffield to Southport, July 5th 1911.
On the reverse are delightful sketches of six Music Hall Artists of the time
including, female and male singers, a female dancer, a violinist and a clown.
With internet research it might be possible to identify some of them.
We have not seen previously such a handdrawn card and this is clearly by a competent artist.
It would make a very interesting Display/Exhibition item.
A gem.
Price: £45.00 SOLD
A Fishing Boat at Sea: hand painted.
153713.
A fine/very fine postcard, no message, with a very fine painted reverse showing a fishing boat.
Very attractive and well executed: a Display quality item.
Price: £40.00 SOLD
Drawing of an Edwardian sweet heart
153717.
A very fine early Edwardian postcard, partial duplex of Brockley on reverse forSeptember 7th 1903.
On the reverse side is a striking pen and ink drawing of a lady dressed in the fashion of the period. T
here is a short message ending with the artist asking ‘Do you like this’ .
So the drawing is probably of the addressee.
Price: £27.50
153718.
A neatly coloured hand drawing on a postcard
of a lady arranging flowers on a pedestal with a bee showing some interest!
The young lady looks startled by the bee.
The card is not addressed but on the reverse are horizontal lines for the address.
The bottom line is : POSTCODE.
These were introduce on a trial basis in Norwich 1959 which was not successful.
However on July 1st 1963 they were introduced nationwide but called ZIP codes the help ‘zip along’ the mail.
The dress the lady is wearing and the stileto heels suggests early 60’s.
A delightful and slightly humorous sketch.
Price: £30.00
Hand painted textured card used within Berlin in 1924
153719.
A very fine textured German card used, within Berlin, September 1924.
On the reverse is a fine water colour painting of a girl holding a bouquet of flowers.
An attractive item.
Price: £27.50
153750.
A fine hand painted card apparently of an image from a fresco.
The internet has a considerable amount of detail about the House of the Vettii in Pompei and its frescos.
It was one of the largest houses in Pompei;
well preserved by the volcanic eruption in 79AD by being buried in ash.
The reverse of the card is blank.
An unusual item.
Price: £30.00
An unusual theme: sent locally in Bristol
153749.
A fine textured postcard used locally in Bristol, sent to a yound boy on December 2nd 1920.
The front has a fine hand watercolour of the American flag.
The significance of this image in not made clear in the message:
one assumes it was sent to an American family.
An unusual theme.
Price: £30.00
The Royal Sussex Regiment: 1915
153746.
Post card from a Military Camp, June 4th 1915, to Eastbourne.
The name of the WW1 Camp is unclear: perhaps why there is no censor cachet on the message side?
On the front is a pen and ink drawing of The Royal Sussex Regiment’s Coat of Arms
incorporating the Cross of St George.
This line infantry regiment was formed in 1881.
It continued in British Army service until
1966
when it became part of The Queen's Regiment.
There is a lot of other information about this Regiment on the internet.
An interesting item.
Price: £30.00
A Printed Postcard: War at Sea in WW1
153754.
This is a printed postcard of a painting with an image of war at sea during the First World War.
On the reverse is a printing date of January 17th 1919: just a few months after the end of the war.
A very powerful composition and the first example of this card we have seen.
Price: £30.00
A peaceful scene finely painted
153723.
An unused postcard with a fine/very fine watercolour painting of boats
on possibly a sea inlet and a shell underneath it.
Price: £30.00
An Edwardian Home in 1906
153722.
A fine postcard sent locally in Cardiff, October 15th 1906.
On the front is a pen and ink sketch of a family scene.
Well drawn and showing Edwardian fashions with a glimpse of the room’s décor.
A fine item.
Price: £30.00
A humorous Edwardian Postcard and Poem
153721.
A hand drawn humorous image on the front of a postcard
sent during the Edwardian era from Workington to Maryport, June 7th 1904.
The significance of the drawing is perhaps within the poem written by the sender.
An unusual glimpse of Edwardian humour.
Price: £27.50
A striking drawing of a lady wearing a hat in Paris in 1911
153724.
A postcard sent from Paris to an address in France: the long message is in French.
On the front is a fine pen and ink drawing of a lady in a striking bonnet shape of hat.
There is a short message bottom right and a date: March 21st 1911.
Perhaps this type of hat was fashionable in Paris at that time?
An attractive item.
Price: £27.50.
153725.
A fine postcard sent from Sutton-on- Sea to Edinburgh in 1910.
The message mentions that ‘George has sketched the P.P.C. here on the sand hills
where we are sitting with a view of the German Ocean’.
George’s pen and ink sketch is well done showing various figures
on the beach, on the sand hills, in the sea and in a boat.
He also has shown the outlines of three Bathing Machines near or in the sea.
There is a lot of information about the history of Sutton-on-Sea
and images on the internet which could be expanded to make an interesting display page.
Price:
£30.00
A fine watercolour painting of a seaside location
153726.
An unaddressed postcard with a fine water colour painting.
No indication of the location but a typical type of building found at the seaside.
A view that brings back memories.
Price: £28.00
153727.
A postcard sent in 1913, the cancellation is unclear.
On the front is a humorous pen and ink drawing with an obvious theme.
The message from the sender to a MIss Hennessy ends with ‘Yours unto dust’.
An ending to a message we have not seen before!
Price: £20.00
A fine painting of Stybarrow Crag in Ullswater.
153728.
A fine unaddressed postcard with a fine water colour painting of
Stybarrow Crag in Ullswater.
There is information and images of this place on the internet.
A black and white photo shows the Crag very much as in the painting on the card
but the water is moving in the opposite direction ie right to left.
No date but the sender is sending ‘a very happy Xmas’message.
Very fine display item.
Price: £40.00
Painting of Bishop’s Waltham Palace.
153748.
Unaddressed and undated postcard with a painting of Bishop’s Waltham Palace.
The Palace was badly damaged in the Civil War (1642-49) and subsequently abandoned.
A lot of information available on the internet; useful for writing up this display item.
Price: £28.00
World’s End Bridge Thirsk dated 1908.
153747.
An unaddressed postcard with a very fine pen and ink drawing of
World’s End Bridge Thirsk and dated 1908.
There is a colour picture of this bridge on the internet.
The description of it says:
‘This delightful Pack Horse bridge is situated at the southern end of Sowerby, a beautiful tree lined part of Thirsk.
The bridge spans Codbeck, and the area is so named as before there was a bridge, t
here was only a ford - so it was effectively "World's End".
A fine display item.
Price; £35.00
153745.
Postcard, stamp missing, from Burnley to Kingswood, Bristol, July 18th 1918.
On the front is a fine, signed, watercolour painting of Catlow Bottoms.
It is located near Nelson in Lancashire England.
On the internet is a coloured printed postcard of this location published
on the website of The Briercliffe Society.
It is shown below the painted postcard and is labelled 'CATLOW BOTTOMS, NELSON
The message on the postcard includes the comment ‘This place on the postcard look lovely.
Will tell you more when you come home’.
A very fine item.
Price: £30.00
The next three postcards, sent during WW1, with KGV 1/2d’s
each cancelled by a dumb canceller hence with no date or location indicated,
and each card has a Passed by Sensor chachet.
The sender has created a coloured picture on the card using the shapes cut out from tram tickets .
On some it might be possible to identify where the ticket was issued
which could be incorporated when writing it up for disiplay.
Have not been able previously to offer such items.
A scan of the
153715.
A Christmas Greeting to ‘Molly’.
One wonders if the cow was called Molly?
Price: £30.00
153714.
Card to ,'Sarah Jane', with all but her face made up of 8 separate pieces of tram ticket:
possibly all coming from tickets issued in Torquay.
A remarkable effort which begs the question ‘how long did it take to make this’.
Hopefully the sender returned after the war to his beloved ’Sarah Jane’.
Price: £40.00
Six Shaped pieces of a Tram Ticket
153716.
A Christmas Greeting.
The picture of a Chinese person with his body made from a 1d ticket.
Described as ‘A Son of China’ who seems to be holding a fan.
Price: £35.00
Items 153714, 715 and 716 would make a very interesting and memorable Display.
WW1 envelope with an illustration of an earliest bi-planes over a castle on the Rhine
153661
A 1915 envelope, with printed description, which when opened allows the printing of a very early bi-plane over a castle on the Rhine to be displayed.
A remarkable item the like of which we have not previously been able to offer.
Would make a very interesting display page.
Price: £45.00 SOLD
Handdrawn 'Queens Head Bath?
153642
1d Pate 213, fine, tied to a front with a pen and ink drawing of a Queens Head Pub in or around Bath?
A second duplex, Bath November 25th 1878, applied just clear of the drawing.
Plate 213 is a scarcer plate.
Sent to Dublin.
Attactive and unusual.
Price: £35.00 SOLD
Painting of a woman in period fashion
153643
Superb postcard with a painting of a woman in the fasion of the times: Edwardian?
Superbly executed art work with an interesting message on the reverse.
Price: £39.00 SOLD
Caracature of the Penny Post Jubilee Envelope and Insert
153634.
A very fine/superb caracatured envelope and insert by Harry Furniss of the officially issued envelope
commemorating the Jubilee of the Uniform Penny Post in July 1890.
Rare to find both the envelope and insert in such fine condition.
An Exhibition quality item.
Price: £135.00
NB: any apparent browning is a trick of the scanner.
The next selection are Printed Illustated Envelopes and one Letter Sheet
including caricatures of the Mulready Envelope.
Reference to various States are taken from
'British Pictorial Envelopes of the 19th Century' by Ritchie Bodily et al
Reprint of Fores Civic Envelope
705.
Deraedemaeker reprint of Fores Civic Envelope
Fine condition.
Price:
£65.00
Peace Envelope
15182.
Valentine’s Peace Envelope: Very fine example of the unissued
design,
printed in the 1890’s on thin cream coloured card, in a pink shade.
Price: £100.00
Valentine's Peace Envelope: unrecorded type
153611.
Deraedemaeker reprint of Vanentie's Peace Envelope in grey.
This is a Type of State 2 except that the inscription on the reverse reads
'Sent free for 18 Penny Post Stamps' whereas the recorded State 2 reads
'Sent free for 12 Penny Postage Stamps'.
An unrecorded variant of State 2.
Very fine condition.
Price: £85.00 SOLD
Rare miss-cut: Valentine's original Temperance Envelope State 1
151633.
Valentine's original State 1,Temperance Envelope with a rare miss-cut.
Very small nibble at the right and a few age marks: fainter than the scan suggests.
Overall in fine condition for such a rarity; the first we have seen.
Price: £125.00
Reprint of Valentine's Temperance Envelope State 3
708.
Deraedemaeker reprint of the Temperance Envelope published by J Valentine of Dundee:
'Intemperance is the Bane of Society',
State 3, printed on cream paper.
Fine condition.
Price: £65.00
Reprint of Valentie's Temperance Envelope State 3
710.
Deraedemaeker reprint of the Temperance Envelope published by J Valentine of Dundee:
'Intemperance is the Bane of Society', State 3.
printed on blue wove paper.
Small corner wrnkle but in overall
fine condition.
Price: £65.00
Reprint of Valentie's Temperance Envelope State 4 Type 11
,
709.
Deraedemaeker reprint of a Temperance Envelope:
'Intoxicating Drinks Are The Bane & Curse of Society',
State 4 Type 11, published by J Valentine of Dundee.
Printed on grey laid paper,
Very fine.
Price: £70.00
Reprint of Valentie's Temperance Envelope State 4 Type 11
153624
Deraedemaeker reprint of a Temperance Envelope:
'Intoxicating Drinks Are The Bane & Curse of Society',
State 4 Type 11, published by J Valentine of Dundee.
Printed on blue paper,
There is a very light corner crease top right .
Very fine fine condition for this scarce item.
Price: £70.00
Reprint of Valentines Peace and Universal Brotherhood Envelope State 2,
711.
Valentines Universal Brotherhood, State 2,
with correct spelling of ‘Arbitration’
a few age spots but fine for this.
Price: £60.00
Reprint of Valentine's Ocean Penny Post, State 5,
713.
Reprint of Valentine's Ocean Penny Post, State 5,
on azure paper,
fine/very fine.
Price: £65.00
Reprint of Valentine's Ocean Penny Post State 5a
712.
Reprint of Valentine's Ocean Penny Post State 5a,
with inscription added at the base.
Printed on grey wove paper,
a few wrinkles and age marks
but fine for this.
Price: £55.00
Reprint of Gilpin's Ocean Penny Post Envelope State 1
153614.
Deraedemaeker reprint of the Gilpin's Ocean Penny Post Envelope State1.
The bottom left corner irregularity is caused by the way the envelope was produced.
An attracrive and scarce/very scarce item in very fine condition.
The first example we have been able to offer.
Price: £70.00
Reprint of Valentine's Anti-slavery Envelope State 1 with misprint
153613
Deraedemaeker reprint of Valentine's Anti-slavery envelope Type 1.
Printed on blue wove paper.
The inscription in the flag should read: 'God Hath Made Of One Blood All Nations of Men'.
In this example there is a misprint: 'OP' instead of 'OF'.
Some light wrinkling on the front and traces of hinge remnants on the reverse top corners
In fine condition for this very scarce item.
Price: £75.00
NB: this spelling variety is not mention by Bodily et al.
Unrecorded reprint of Valentine's Anti-slavery LETTER SHEET
153612.
Deraedemaeker reprint of Valentine's Anti-slavery LETTER SHEET (Type 1)?.
Printed on poor quality cream toned paper.
The quality of the printing is poor in comparison to item 153613 above:
could it be a trial pull or 'proof' strike?
In the envelope's case the inscription in the flag should read:
'God Hath Made Of One Blood All Nations of Men'.
In this example there is a misprint: 'OP' instead of 'OF'.
We have not been able to trace another example of this
in Letter Sheet rather than envelope format.
A rare item.
Price: £95.00
Items 153612 and 153613 would make an excellent display pairing.
Reprint of Menzies caricature of the Mulready Envelope
153615.
Please note, the apparent browning on the front and reverse is not present: a trick of the scanner.
A Deraedemaeker reprint of the caricature by Menzies of the Muready Envelope.
An unusual very deep and crisp printing more characteristic of the original.
Item 153623 has a fainter printing which is more usual on reprinted examples.
The rear flaps can be opened out to show the rear design.
This is State 1B: the Menzies imprint is 39.5mm in length.
A very attractive item which displays well and in very fine condition.
Price: £90.00
Reprint of Menzies caricature of the Mulready Envelope
153623
A Deraedemaeker reprint of the caricature by Menzies of the Muready Envelope.
This item has a fainter printing than an original which is usual on reprinted examples.
The rear flaps can be opened out to show the rear design.
This is State 1B: the Menzies imprint is 39.5mm in length.
A very attractive item which displays well and in fine condition.
Price: £70.00
Items 153623 and 153615 would make a very interesting display pairing.
The next four items are Deraedemaeker Reprints from the Southgate Caricatures
inspired by the Muready Envelopes
Number 1: 'Pick-Pocket'
153626.
Deraedemaeker reprint of the Number 1 Southgate Caricature ' The Pick-Pocket'.
Overall toning, not as pronounced as the scan, in fine condition.
Price: £45.00 SOLD
Number 3: 'The Peg-Leg Sailor'
153620.
Deraedemaeker reprint of the Number 3 Southgate Caricature ' The Peg-Leg Sailor'.
Hinge remnants on the reverse as per scan and a very small corner fault top right
but in fine condition for this.
An attractive display item.
Price: £55.00 SOLD
Number 4: 'Blarney Stone'
153621
Deraedemaeker reprint of the Number 4 Southgate Caricature ' Blarney Stone'.
Hinge remnants on the reverse as per scan but in fine condition for this.
An attractive display item.
Price: £65.00
NB: There appears to be misprint of the number as it seems to be a '2' but should have been a '4'.
We have not seen this error previously
Number 5: 'Pickwick'.
153622
Deraedemaeker reprint of the Number 5 Southgate Caricature 'Pickwick'.
Hinge remnants on the reverse as per scan but in fine/very fine condition for this.
An attractive display item.
Price: £70.00
Handpainted envelope to Ceylon quite soon after the end on WW2
153590.
NB: this was an unusual display item. The problem with power cuts rings true even today!
A well executed painting of the Man in the Moon.
Price: £45.00 SOLD
A drawing within a drawing.
151456.
Front from London to Long Island, New York, via Queenstown, 5d SG169, trimmed perfs at right:
January 17th 1884 with a rare franking and destination for a hand drawn item.
Very unusual theme depicting a man in Tudor clothing
drawing a still life topic,'hat on a thin stem'.
A rare combination of features, especially to an overseas destination
with the 5d franking and well sketched.
Price: £65.00 SOLD
NB: item is in cleaner condition than the scan suggests.
Hand drawn mock up of Pearson's Weekly
151318.
Hand drawn 'mock up' of Pearson's Weekly,
Their motto 'To Interest, To Elevate To Amuse' with a range of adverts.
The browning in the Mellins Food advert is far fainter than the scan suggests.
A very rare item sent on New Years Day 1897
Price: £125.00
NB: Details of Pearson's Weekly and related publications are available on the internet.
Very fine drawing of a contemporary gentleman smoking a clay a pipe
151310.
Front mounted on stiff card with pair of 1/2d bantams plate 5 sent to Peterborough:
superb hand drawn ink sketch of a contemporary gentleman,1877, smoking a clay pipe.
The tone spots are nowhere near as obvious as the scan suggests.
Attractive and very scarce with such a fine drawing and franked withbantam 1/2d's
Price: £80.00
Hand drawn and coloured Dickens' Character
153404.
Fine hand drawn coloured sketch on an unposted postcard by R Ross in 1905.
Very fine condition and very well executed.
Would display well when written up more fully.
Price: £40.00
Two hand drawn sketches by the same artist
153403.
Two unposted postcards with interesting and unusual hand drawn sketches in very fine condition and by the same artist.
The one with the pianist and two dancing men is clearly a performance on stage (The Mikado) from the song.
No date but probably late Victorian/Edwardian.
Price the pair: £36.00
Humurous handdrawn 1908 Envelope
153399.
Envelope used locally in BRADFORD, Yorks and addressed to the Market Tavern.
On the front is a humurous well-executed pen and ink drawing,
'Even the hairs on our head are numbered': the artists initial were F.A.
Perhaps this is a self portrait!
Postage paid by a perfinned 1d and tied by a Bradford dare stamp for May 7th 1908.
The envelope in fine condition except damage top left caused by it being roughly opened
and and some age markings.
Price: £35.00 SOLD
QV 1/2d green post card
153500.
QV 1/2d green postcard from Streatham SW London, April 8th 1901.
On the reverse is a very fine pen and ink drawing of a large house, probably called Oaklands.
The Artists has intialled the drawing, dated April 7th 1901, with Birthday good wishes.
The postcard is in fine condition: the browning on the front is a lot fainter than the scan suggests
and virtually none at all on the reverse.
An attractive item sent less than 3 months after the death of Queen Victoria.
Price: £30.00 SOLD
Rare and unusual handdrawn Cricket Match on complete envelope
1533323
The first hand drawn cricket match we have seen on an envelope of that period.
The 'match stick' figures: a precursor of L S Lowry!
An extremely unusual and very rare item especially as a complete envelope.
Price: £145.00
NB: on the left of the 1d lilac are a few perfs folded inwards
The artist even put above the address 'office stamp' and the post office obliged
with a Brighton cds in that position!
American Civil War Propaganda Design
151539.
A dated and stamped piece from an illustrated envelope, possibly propaganda, from the American Civil War.
The 1d star tied with a London NE duplex for January 4th 1862 and tied by a partial receiver cds for the following day.
The political design shows a greyhound with a collar ‘SOUTH’ on it and a wide brimmed hat
looking backwards at a rather vicious looking dog with ‘NORTH’ on its collar
standing on a rack of meat with ‘WASHINGTON’ on it.
Behind the dog are barrels labeled Beer, Flour and Pork.
An item that would benefit from further research as to the full meanings of the design.
Bodily et al do not illustrate, or refer to, this envelope in ‘British Pictorial Envelopes of the 19th Century’.
Would make a very interesting display page if enlarged and written up with more research information.
The first such design we have seen.
Price: £65.00
Delightful hand drawing
153048.
A very fine postcard from London, September 14th 1903?.
Addressed to The Misses Taylor, 'Auchenean', Largs.
On the reverse is a well drawn image, possibly of the sender,
looking at a drawing of a Scottish scene: is he homesick for Scotland?
In the background is an artists’ easel.
The drawing is clearly executed by a very competent artist.
This is evidenced by the small coloured areas, but especially the candle flame,
which bring the picture to life.
The message has some very personal meaning as at the bottom the writer adds:
‘Please burn after reading’.
We are pleased that the Misses Taylor did not carry out this instruction
and so a fine Edwardian hand drawn sketch has survived.
A delightful item.
Price: £38.00
Drawings by Sir George Cathcart when a very young man
152968. A wrapper from London to
Pencaitland, Tranent, North Britain.
On the front is a very fine double framed Adam St W, General Post Receiving House
and a Crowned Free date stamp for April 21st 1820.
There are no postal markings on the reverse but there is a full black wax seal with a Coat of Arms.
The wrapper is addressed to Lord Belhaven.
Information about him, and the family name, is on the internet.
On the front the right side of the wrapper is written in a contemporary hand: ‘George Cathcart’s little Drawings’.
On the inside of the wrapper are two small coloured drawings: one dated August 29th 1814 the other September 2nd 1814.
Sir George Cathcart , son of William Cathcart, the 1st Earl Cathcart, had a distinguished Military career.
He was commissioned into the Life Guards in 1810 at the age of 16/17.
George Cathcart was present at the battles between the Russian and the French army in 1813 and
he followed the Russian army through Europe, entering Paris in March 1814.
When Napoleon returned in 1815, Cathcart served as aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington
and was present at the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo.
The development of his career is described in detail on the internet and there is a portrait of him when a General.
He was shot and killed at the Battle of
Inkerman when leading the 1st Brigade in 1854.
The hand drawn and coloured ‘George Cathcart’s little Drawings’, are dated late August and early September 1814.
He would probably have been back in Great Britain from Paris by then
and perhaps created them when he was back home or at a holiday location.
The writing at the front right may be by Lord Belhaven: a note reminding him of the drawings inside the wrapper.
The wrapper would have been addressed by Sir George
Cathcart.
An intriguing item that would make a very interesting display page(s).
A truly remarkable survivor from more than 200 years ago.
A rarity the like of which we have not previously seen.
Price: £145.00
Unusual and early example of a coded message
263.
1d SG40?:
Unusual drawings and possibly in a coded series of messages and images.
Intriguing.
£85.00 SOLD
NB: Please let me know if you are able to decipher the message.
Hand drawn image of Southport Beach in 1862?
152598.
Front mounted on card, from Manchester to Southport, March 18th 1862, the 1d is defective at the top.
A superb pen and ink drawing of a beach scene: possibly as the sender remembers it.
The dress of the period is well observed and the ladies showing their ankles was unusual for the times:
perhaps acceptable when on the beach?
A superb and rare item which would make a fine display page.
Price: £175.00
NB: this was sent barely three months after Prince Albert had died.
Pen and ink drawing
142534.
Very fine pen and ink drawing, on a thin card, of the end of a platform in the London underground.
Not dated or postally used: perhaps the syle of the weighing machine could help?
Very unusual topic.
Price: £40.00
Sketch from an actor RESTING
152498.
1d lilac Die 2 on an envelope fro Hull to London, August 27th 1888.
Addressed to the JUNIOR GARRICK CLUB, Adelphi, London.
On the front is a graphic sketch with near the bottom RESTING.
Clearly representing an actor who was not presently employed hence the comment 'RESTING'
and perhaps a reflection of how hard he/she was finding another part.
On the reverse are some smaller hand sketches.
A tired envelope but a very rare example from an actor at a time when
theatres were becoming increasingly popular in London but perhaps not in Hull?
Would make a fascinating display item when enhanced by information from the internet
about the Junior Garrick Club as well as the Garrick Club itself.
A dramatic item.
Price: £60.00 SOLD
Latest usage of Fores Handcoloured Envelope
152492.
Fores Hunting Envelope, Number 4: a very fine handcoloured example used within Guernsey, Channel Islands
with a QE2 twopence halfpenny stamp tied by a St Peters Port cds for August 3rd 1957.
Sent philatelically but the LATEST used example of any of this series, printed in 1840, that we have seen.
A very attractive and rare item.
Price: £220.00
1/2d postcard with a rare painting on reverse
151689. The first type of design of the 1/2d postcard but without the word 'To':
fine example from ASHFORD, February 13th 1877 to Bury St Edmunds.
The London Inland Branch '44', rated scarce by Parmenter, missed cancelling the QV 1/2d postage.
On the reverse is a superb hand painting of a yellow rose with the stem going through a card.
The card has on it the following Shakespearean verse:
'Fair be all thy hopes, and prosperous be thy Life in peace and war', signed 'Bertie Welch Febry 14th 1877'.
The card is addressed to A W Welch Esq.
There is a Bury St Edmunds cds for February 14th 17 instead of Feb 14th 77.
Forty years on from the date of this postcard, the Country was involved in WW1:
a very poignant error of date in view of the Shakespearean verse!
A superb and very rare item - the first painting we have seen on this postcard.
Price: £235.00
NB: the browning on front of the card is far less pronounced than the scan suggests.
The receiving cds had to be applied to part of the painting in order for the date to be seen
in view of the black background.
Hand painted fairground booth
151785. Mounted on card, a front from New cross London to
'The Little Cigar Shop, Dale End, Birmingham', October 24th 1881.
The 1d lilac is SG170, Die 1.
The hand painting of a fairground booth is naive but attractively done with a lot of detail.
The man with the drum is shouting out:
'Walk up Walk up. The old women on the platform will take yer money'.
Delightful item and a rare theme.
Price: £95.00
Hot Air Balloon drawing - a RARE theme.
151333. Front mounted on card, handrawn silhouetted figures having a drink and
on the table is a container with gas coming out of the top.
On the right is a drawing of a gas balloon incorporating the 1d lilac with a figure trying to restrain it.
We cannot recall seeing previously a drawing of a hot air balloon on an envelope from this period.
This example dated June 12th 1893.
A rare theme and a fine display item.
Price: £75.00. SOLD
NB: the brown marks are far less evident than the scan suggests.
There are some superb photos on the internet showing how popular ballooning events were with the Victorians.
Printed Decorated Envelope 1879
152226. SG141 Plate 14 'GF', fine used:
tied to a small neat envelope from BELFAST to Brooklyn, New York by a partial and lightly struck
Belfast duplex for May 1879 leaving virtually the whole of the Queen's head clear.
The envelope has a delicate printed decoration in lime green of flower motifs on branches/stems.
Very unusual and an early example of a coloured printed illustrated envelope.
Price: £65.00 SOLD
NB: the item is finer than the scan suggests.
1/2d Postcard with hand drawn message
152134. 1/2d postcard from Cork to Passage West, August 1st 1894.
On the reverse is a remarkable hand drawn message the like of which we have never previously seen.
One wonders how long it took the artist to complete this with such accuracy.
Exhibition quality.
Price: £55.00 SOLD
Advertising Envelope for the 'Roth Mago' or 'The Magic Watch' Performance
1053.
1880 Advertising Envelope,
Rare printed envelope from The Royal Alhambra Theatre, London advertising
‘Rotho Mago' or 'The Magic Watch’ with a GOLDEN pocket watch showing the time of the performance.
The 3d rate to
Rothomago or 'The Magic Watch' was a grand Christmas Musical fairy spectacular
in 4 acts and 17 tableaux by H B Farnie which opened on December 22 1879.
A rare survivor and especially to an overseas destination.
A very rare and attractive Exhibition item.
Price: £275.00 SOLD
NB: in finer condition than the scan.
Hand printed envelope with hand illustrated letter head 1876
152037. Envelope to London from Hayes Kent, March 9th 1876.
On the front is a printed silhouette of two men fencing.
A 1d plate 163 added to the space within the design but torn.
Inside is the original letter with a coloured drawing of a spider or spider crab.
The 3-page letter is largely berating the recipient for not keeping in touch and ends 'Yours Angrily'.
Part of the rear flap missing and no postal markings so the letter was either
hand delivered or it got through the system without cancellation or transit date stamps.
An attractive and very scarce item having the hand drawn and coloured letter heading.
Price: £150.00 SOLD
NB: Hayes, Kent was a village near the London Borough of Bromley but is now a suburb of it.
A rare redirected printed envelope
22. Printed caricatured envelope of a man with a hammer erecting a sign'.
Franked 1d red pl 160, tied Lowestoft 478 duplex August 20 76
clear of the caricature with Leamington cds on reverse for August 21 76.
REDIRECTED with new address on rev of envelope to Bridport, I of Wight.
Original 1d on front o/struck by Gt Yarmouth I of Wight duplex (486),
for August 22 1876 but on new address side another 1d red, pl 167,
added and cancelled by Gt Yarmouth duplex for August 22 1876.
Most unusual and rare with redirection.
Price: £135.00 SOLD
Hand drawn scene on a Front: Oban 1885
151993. 1d lilac tied to hand illustrated Front from OBAN to ESTHER, July 7th 1885.
Pen drawn scene rather naively executed but with an interesting and unusual composition.
Price: £50.00 SOLD
Postcard coloured drawing on reverse: Sutton 1898
151995.
1/2d SG197 on a very fine postcard, SUTTON to SOUTH CROYDON, December 23rd 1898.
On the reverse is a hand drawn and coloured angel/cherub together with a poem and Xmas greetings.
An attractive item.
Price: £55.00
Envelope to Battle finely hand drawn mother and girl: 1870
151996. 1d plate 119, fine, on an envelope from LONDON to BATTLE, October 29th 1870.
The top of the envelope has a few tears as per the scan but on the front is a
delightful drawing of a mother holding her daughter? in an artists studio.
The lady is pointing to the address on the easel - The Lady Margaret Ashburnham.
Details of this aristocratic family can be found on the internet.
Despite the faults, an attractive drawing and an early example.
Price: £55.00 SOLD
Trio of fronts to the same addressee and by the same artist: 1860's
151998. A rare TRIO of illustrated fronts by the same artist and to the same addressee,
a Maitland Coffin, at KINGS COLLEGE LONDON all from DEVONPORT.
The first, a registered front, has the 4d registration fee paid by a 4d SG94 PLate 8, put to press in 1866.
The fine drawing is of mule/donkey headed pianist: we cannot recall seeing another hand illustrated registered item from this period.
The second has a 1d plate 95 tied by the '250' of Devonport.
The drawing is of a man on a donkey holding a women with a pig or dog apparently
flying in the air by a balloon and a clown-type collar with coloured baubles.
The third has a 1d plate 99 tied by the Devonport duplex for January 27th 1867:
the drawing is of Benjamin Disraeli who at that time was Chancellor of the Exchequer
A very unusual grouping indeed which could be well presented in a display.
Price the trio: £160.00
NB: the condition of each is finer than the scan suggests.
Printed Envelope and Letter
151809. An attractive printed envelope of a man, in period dress, playing the lute,
which seems to be making the cat's hackles rise!
The 1d red plate 184, is tied by the ABINGDON duplex for July 22nd 1877 and addressed to Clifton.
On receipt in Clifton, it was redirected to Weybridge, and there is an inspectors mark in red.
On the reverse is a Weybridge Station cds for July 24th 1877.
The original letter has a printed line egraved heading showing in silhouette a horse drawn carriage
with TEN passengers each caricatured in animal form and similarly the driver.
This type of caricaturing was common in the Victorian period and socially acceptable to them;
a part of the social history of that time. The date of the letter is on the carriage side.
The interesting letter is written by a brother to his sister and signed on the next page of the folded letter.
A superb and attractive line engraved illustrated envelope and RARE when paired with the engraved letter.
Price: £280.00
NB: We have seen only one other example of this illustrated envelope and that was without its contents.
Drawings on both sides of Envelope 1884
151783. Envelope, opened at the right side and bottom for display purposes,
with 1d lilac SG172 tied by a RUAN MINOR, square circle, August 21st 1884.
Upper Edmonton receiver on reverse, August 22nd 1884.
Hand drawn on the front (shooting) and on the reverse (fishing) and across the inside is
a printed coloured country/seaside scene of a young woman and man.
The envelope roughly opened at the top and repaired and some edge damage to the printed inside scene.
The grouse season would have started on August 12th 1884.
An attractive and remarkable combination of features.
Price: £175.00 SOLD
NB: The cornish village of Ruan Minor had a population in the 1881 census of only 272.
The apparent brown areas on the front and reverse of the envelope are NOT present - a trick of the scanner.
The long stride of the gentleman: is it a forerunner of John Cleese's walk!
Pen and ink drawing
151787. Very fine pen and ink drawing on clean and uncreased, unstamped envelope addressed to Beaminster.
The top flap is missing, no postal markings and possibly sent locally.
The artist did not want to put a stamp on the envelope as it would spoil his drawing
so he added at the bottom 'UNSTAMPED 2d TO PAY'.
Very unusual and the first such we have seen.
Price: £110.00 SOLD
Valentine embossed envelope: 1854
151649. 1d red imperf, 'QJ', Plate 169:
3-margined example with a diagonal scratch to the plate in the NE corner.
This has resulted in an unprinted area.
The stamp is tied by the '798' of THRAPSTONE, Northants.
Sent to a Miss Beale in Cambridge, on Valentine's Day, February 14th 1854.
On the reverse is a receiving cds for the day after Valentine's Day!!
This might explain why the reverse of the envelope has some damage to it:
perhaps the recipient was very eager to get at the contents?
A delightful fancy printed envelope with an embroidered and flowery design.
Some peripheral faults but a rare example of a Valentine with a 1d red imperf.
Rare also to find the 1d red displaying damage to the printing plate.
An attractive and rare item.
Price: £150.00
NB: the reverse side is in better condition than the scan suggests
A Mysterious Affair at Doncaster
Hand drawn embossed 1d front 1865
151566. Very well executed coloured front of a 1d pink embossed envelope,
with a printing date of 1-5-63, incorporated into the design.
Sent from London W C to Southsea, Portsmouth, April 10th 1865.
An early example especially so well drawn and coloured.
Price: £60.00 SOLD
1854 Ireland Front with date markings
15112.
1854: Front, mounted, to Castletown- Delvin
within County West Meath, Ireland February 22nd 1854.
A pen and ink drawing of
a drummer with children.
Struck largely away from the drawing are red cds’s of
KILLUCAN and CASTLE
DELVIN.
Very early example of a hand drawn item used internally within Ireland.
A charming, amusing and very scarce item.
Price: £60.00
15113. Envelope from London to Malvern, March 22nd 1859:
1d star defect at top with the Artist’s name
on the reverse at right.
Unusual pen and ink drawing with the older woman holding an open fan
with the younger women holding the address.
Very atmospheric and of the period.
Price: £95.00
15114.
1876: Front with 1d plate 185, London to Cheltenham, March 11th 1876.
Fault at right but with two well drawn ladies ice skating:
a rare theme for pen and ink drawings.
Attractive and rare.
Price: £60.00
SOLD
15116.
1880: Front, superb pen and ink drawing, Leamington to
Shepherds Bush, London July 16th 1880.
Unusual design with four leprechaun-like
musicians underneath the moon, La Famille B.
Attractive and rare.
Price: £120.00
15035. 1901: Front to Guernsey, 1d lilac
tied Falmouth cds, January 4th 1901.
Rather naively drawn but
attractive and coloured with naval and sailing images.
Unusual.
Price: £38.00
SOLD
15119.
1897: Privately printed advertising envelope by D MALLOCH,
‘Fishing Tackle Maker and Bird Stuffer’
of Perth
depicting various Exhibition medals won for their Fishing Reels and Flies.
SG197 1/2d vermilion, tied by Perth cds for December 14th 1897.
Only the second example we have
seen of this
attractive envelope – the last was in 2004!
Price: £125.00
NB: Some age browning at the right edge though much fainter than the scan suggests.
15120. Half Penny wrapper for newspapers and
other printed circulars,
London to Paris, with NPB cancellation in very fine condition.
Superb and rare printed advert on the front
for the ‘Instantaneous Heating – Gas Engine Tube’
from the Tube Co,
100 Queen Victoria St, London E C.
Price: £75.00
The
following are Deraedemaeker reprints unless stated otherwise.
703. Fores Christmas Envelope small ink mark, fine.
Price: £52.00 SOLD
706. The Civilization of America Onwhyn fine/very fine.
Price: £60.00 SOLD
707. The Maine Law Intemperance Envelope very fine.
Price: £63.00 SOLD
714. Ocean Penny Post ORIGINAL by Johnstone, Edinburgh. State 3, small faults, scarce.
Price: £80.00 SOLD
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