Two penny post - help appreciated
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:00 pm
Can anyone identify this poorly struck unpaid name stamp for us please?
It is on a letter written from Hackney by a mother to her son Dr. Forster
who is with Col. Beaufoy at Bushey near Stanmore.
It has obviously gone through the Twopenny Post, but this office stamp is
only partly struck, and looks as if it begins Bos...
I have checked with Brumell's book and the County History - London, we have
looked for Bos... Hos... Ros... and can find nothing like it in their
listings
Unfortunately, as her son would know where she lived, she has only put
minimum information at the top of the letter,
"Sunday night 19th" but no actual address, which might help to pin it down,
but the second letter is written from Hackney, so this is possibly the same.
For reference similar, but much better struck, example is on our website
on this page,
http://www.earsathome/webgil/2punpdls.jpg
Any information gratefully received.
Ron and Eunice.