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Offline Idiot_Hunter

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Please help with this postal item
« on: Friday 21 September 12 12:30 BST (UK) »
I'm not sure what this is...does anyone know?

Also, I can't make out the name on it...if anyone could help me please?

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Re: Please help with this postal item
« Reply #1 on: Friday 21 September 12 12:41 BST (UK) »
I think the name looks like

Mr Tyler
Manor House
Langhope
Gloster ?  (Gloucester)

The other name looks like C Standish

Carol
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Yorkshire - Potts, Bell, Derbyshire, Kershaw
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Warwickshire - Russon
Leicestershire - Stodd, Sarson, Berridge, Watts, Bradshaw.
Middlesex / Surrey - Markham, Pearce, Kalaher, Barrett

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Re: Please help with this postal item
« Reply #2 on: Friday 21 September 12 12:46 BST (UK) »
I'd agree with Carol, but it could also be Mrs Taylor

Date 1838 but can't make out what the top bit means.

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Re: Please help with this postal item
« Reply #3 on: Friday 21 September 12 12:49 BST (UK) »
It's a Parliamentary frank - see http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-information-office/g20web.pdf - see image on page 12 and text on page 5
Simons Barrett Jaffray Waugh Langdale Heugh Meade Garnsey Evans Vazie Mountcure Glascodine Parish Peard Smart Dobbie Sinclair....
in Stirlingshire, Roxburghshire; Bucks; Devon; Somerset; Northumberland; Carmarthenshire; Glamorgan

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« Reply #4 on: Friday 21 September 12 12:55 BST (UK) »
The top line says

London Jany Thirty 1838

Charles  Standish was MP for Wigan between 1837 and 1847

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/charles_standish/wigan

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Re: Please help with this postal item
« Reply #5 on: Friday 21 September 12 13:16 BST (UK) »
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