Envelope
Category
Ephemera
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper
Measurements
95 x 157 mm
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 748857.26
Summary
One in a collection of various pieces of used and none used wrapping papers, paper bags and scraps of paper and card. A used brown paper envelope of diamond construction with triangle opening to top. The back is plain and the original opening is stuck down with the content accessed through slitting the top edge. The front has a cellophane window in the bottom left corner and in the top left printed in black 'IN CASE NON-DELIVERY PLEASE RETURN TO "BROCKET" BOYN HILL AVENUE, MAIDENHEAD, BERKSHIRE.' Beneath the word 'BERKSHIRE' there is a round black postal stamp mark; 'MAIDENHEAD 11-AM 30 SEP 1944 BERKS.'. To the right of this a blue postage stamp depicting the head of King George VI with a crown above his head and '2 1/2' in a circle beneath. In each corner is a flower representing the four United Kingdoms, English rose, Scottish thistle, Irish shamrock, Welsh daffodil. Running vertically on each side 'POSTAGE REVENUE', the stamp is obscured by a black postal mark made up of seven wavy lines in two blocks. The envelope is kept with others in a folded piece of card (record 748857.7).