Before we venture west to the highlands (well, the Welsh Marches) we had the local club's Summer Fair. Nowadays I don't look for many stamps, but I do look for modern British postal history, which I write up on the other blog here.
This is the best find for many years, an insured parcel to South Africa franked at £3.35. Read the postal history blog to find out whether this was right, and why.
I was also told of another find in a local post office, the 1st class business sheet with M17L coding. Printed on 22/02/2017 this is on SBP2 of course, and will be added to our webshop for purchase on our return.
Parcel Post Labels from East Twerton, Bath (1896) and North Town, Taunton
(1895)
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A couple of early-ish Parcel Post Labels (parcel service started August
1883), beginning with one for East Twerton under Bath in September 1896.
The fra...
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