Fletcher Collection
On his death in 1968 (aged 86), the collection was bequeathed to the Bruce Castle Museum in Tottenham, once the home of Sir Rowland Hill.There is a 1682 letter carried by the William Dockwra's original London Penny Post, and a study of the handstamps once the government took over the service.(including used on 5 December 1839, the first day of the new rate, from Dublin, Edinburgh, and Glasgow), and during the subsequent period of the uniform one penny rate with rare private prepaid envelopes printed by Baraclough in brown (illustrated), and by Buchanan in blue.Postal stationery is included with complete uncut sheets of Mulready 1d and 2d (envelopes and lettersheets of each value).[2] The stamps of Great Britain used abroad include covers showing mixed issue frankings from Danish West Indies, Nicaragua, and Beirut.
philatelicBritish stamps used abroadBruce Castle MuseumTottenhamSir Rowland HillBritish Librarypre-adhesive materialWilliam DockwraLondon Penny Post1839-1840 handstruck 4d.uniform one pennyQueen Victoria1840 penny blackPostal stationeryMulreadylettersheetstamps of Great BritainfrankingsDanish West IndiesNicaraguaBeirutBritish Library Philatelic CollectionWest Africa Study CircleEttridge CollectionEvanion CollectionFrancis Place CollectionJaffray CollectionNational Reports CollectionAshley LibraryCotton LibraryDexter CollectionDurrell CollectionEccles CollectionEdiciones VigíaGarrick CollectionHannas CollectionHarold Pinter ArchiveKing's LibraryLeyden Medical DissertationsPaston LettersPrivate CaseSuppressed Safe collectionThomason CollectionArundel ManuscriptsCoptic Language CollectionCotton CollectionEgerton CollectionHarleian CollectionRoyal manuscriptsKing's manuscriptsLansdowne manuscriptsStowe manuscriptsSyriac CollectionStefan Zweig CollectionBeudeker CollectionBurney CollectionBailey CollectionBlackburn CollectionBojanowicz CollectionBooth PapersBurnett CollectionCampbell-Johnston CollectionChismon CollectionChinchen CollectionContributions Agency CollectionCrawford LibraryCrown Agents ArchiveCrown Agents CollectionDavies CollectionEwen CollectionFeldheim CollectionFitzgerald CollectionForeign and Commonwealth OfficeForeign Office CollectionGeneral CollectionGinger CollectionH.M. Customs and Excise CollectionH.M. Stationery Office CollectionHarrison CollectionHarrison & Sons CollectionHeys CollectionImperial War Museum stamp collectionInland Revenue Stamping ArchiveJohnson CollectionKaluski CollectionKay CollectionLangmead CollectionLandmark Trust Lundy ArchiveMcInroy CollectionModel CollectionMonks CollectionMosely CollectionMuraleetharan PapersMurray CollectionPhotograph CollectionPostal Authority Publicity CollectionR.P.S.L. Handouts CollectionRow CollectionRyan CollectionSeymour CollectionScott CollectionShelley CollectionSherborn CollectionSmith CollectionSupplementary CollectionTapling CollectionTreasury Excise CorrespondenceTurner Collection of ForgeriesTurner Collection of Newspaper Tax StampsTurner Collection of Railway Letter StampsU.P.U. CollectionWalker CollectionWilliams PapersWilson-Todd CollectionBritish Library Sound ArchiveOral History of British ScienceSt Mary-le-Bow DebatesBookbindingsFriendsPanizzi LecturesPreservation OfficeReading RoomSounds