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Auction: 23025 - Historical Documents, Postal History & Autographs
Lot: 217

Great Britain
Postal History - Essex
1907-1932 Official Post Office reports and supporting documents relating to the Clacton-on-Sea Post Office concerning despatches between rural post offices, establishment of a TSO at West Clacton, Sub office at Bockings Elm, extension of Sunday delivery, Frinton-on-Sea revision of outdoor force and additional postmen, vacancy at Great Holland, Mail Cart driver's services dispensed with at Walton on the Naze, 1915 "Norwegian mailbag washed up by the sea at Walton on the Naze / The packets of which the addresses cannot be deciphered and of which the contents are ruined may be destroyed", Rural Post Tests, Detailed Returns and the Annual Report for Clacton-on-Sea for 1910 and 1911. A further range of items in a PO Engineering Dept folder has a Special Notice regarding the 1926 General Strike, extracts from PO Circulars, letter boxes, parcel post and mail carts. Fascinating insight into the workings of the Post Office (45)

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Estimate
£300 to £350

Starting price
£250