1890 PENNY POST JUBILEE

 1065. July 1890 Jubilee Conversazione at South Kensington Museum : very fine insert from the Jubilee Post Office Envelope with all five of the special postmarks used at the event – three on the front and two on the reverse.   Scarce item.  £150.00  IMAGE1  IMAGE2

1067. July 1890: Superb pair of Proof Impressions for the 1d and 3d Tube Post Cancellations for the South Kensington Exhibition on cards.  The card with the 3d postmark is annotated in pencil ‘Question’, ‘Reply’ and ‘Poste Restante’ on the reverse.  Very scarce.  £225.00  IMAGE1  IMAGE2  SOLD

1068. July 2 1890: Superb clean and uncreased envelope posted at the Exhibition to a London address with a fine pair of 1/2d blue SG187 tied by a single strike of the special handstamp in blackish violet ink. London WC July 3 1890 cds on reverse. £125.00  IMAGE SOLD

1069. July 2 1890: Superb uncreased envelope posted at the Exhibition to a London address with a 1d Fiscal, SGF12 with small fault at the top, tied by the Exhibition cancel in blackish violet. Ink. London WC July 3 1890 cds on reverse.  Scarce usage.    £68.00  IMAGE

1070. July 2 1890: 3d British Empire card posted at the Exhibition to Australia with an interesting message on the reverse together with a Melbourne receiving cds.  Some wrinkling at right but this is an exceptional item. In The Report of the Controller of the London Postal Service, R C Tombs, for the May 1890 Exhibition, of the 20,508 ordinary postcards sold on its first day, only 1,208 were of a type for the foreign service and only about 12 were addressed to Australia . In The Report of the Controller about the July 2 1890 Exhibition, he mentions that 2,166 postcards were sold there and of these only 311 were sold as were used for the foreign service.  Hence the number of the 3d cards sent to Australia from the Exhibition will have been very small and very possibly less than the dozen sent from the May 1890 event. Hence this item is of exceptional rarity and may well be a unique survivor.  £825.00  IMAGE1  IMAGE2

1071. July 2 1890: Superb clean envelope posted at the Exhibition to a London address with a 1d Fiscal SGF20 from the very scarce Die 2, tied by the Exhibition cancel in blackish violet.  London WC July 3 1890 cds on the reverse.  Rare usage of Die 2.   £170.00  IMAGE

1073. July 1890 Harry Furniss mint caricature of the Post Office Jubilee envelope with insert.  Exceptional condition.  £95.00  IMAGE

1074. July 31 1890: Harry Furniss caricature of the Post Office Jubilee envelope. Very fine/superb envelope used locally in London with 1d lilac tied by a superb Lombard Street cds for July 31 1890.  An extremely rare used example with only three or four contemporarily used examples known.  This is the third earliest usage with the earliest recorded just 5 days before this one.  Exceptional and a rare opportunity to acquire such an item.  £750.00  IMAGE SOLD

1075. October 1890: Post Office Jubilee envelope with the July 2 1890 Exhibition cancel and in addition cancelled on the last day of the German Exhibition, October 10 1891, and by the Royal Naval Exhibition cancel for October 19 1891.  Envelope with some peripheral faults and age spots but a good example and scarce.  £135.00  IMAGE

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