£400
GB.QUEEN VICTORIA LIVERPOOL POSTAL HISTORY. A well-collected and beautifully displayed collection written-up to exhibition standard in two beautiful "FG De Luxe" Frank Godden padded albums in slip cases. Specifically Liverpool numeral cancellations as applied to stamps on 1844 to 1887 covers. A high level of research delightfully illustrated with the history of the different cancellation types (with reference to the source literature) plus information regarding the covers themselves including particular focus on the different codes / positions of codes, even earliest known use etc, stamp frankings from the 1841 1d & 2d imperfs onwards, plenty of interest, we note an 1869 EL bearing 1s green to Caracas, La Guayra, Venezuela, 1881 cover to Home Secretary Sir William Harcourt, 1887 env with 1d lilac tied 'Bootle Cum Linacre' cancellation, etc (approx 138 items)
Lot 1371
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