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Lot 1509

binder with approximately 88 items mostly written up on exhibit pages, we note 1864 England to New York with "New York Post Office Advertised" and "Cannot be Found" handstamps (ex-Cropp), 1866 Westminster to New York marked "Not Called For" (ex-White), 1875 Dublin to Wisconsin via Boston and New York (ex-Bedell), 1897 England to Philadelphia with five 1p Inland Revenue (accepted for postage), several philatelically-inspired stationery entires, non-British frankings include US two 15c Columbians on cover to Austria, 1872 Toronto to England with 2c and five 6c Small Queens (ex-Montgomery), several Canada 5c Green registry stamps, also Newfoundland and Mexico, generally fine to very fine, an interesting and attractive group that wonderfully illustrates the evolution of transatlantic registered mail over the course of the late 19th Century