GB 1945 SG454,456,457,458,460,461,483,489,D30 Cover

Stock Code: P223015804

1945 Registered Mail. Very unusual, registered cover sent locally within Hull on VE day 1945. Franked with 1d & 2½d 1935 Silver Jubilee, ½d, 1d & 2½d Edward VIII definitives and George VI 1½d Coronation, 2½d Centenary and a 2½d light ultramarine definitive each cancelled by a Registered/Hull Yorkshire oval datestamp for MY.8.1945. Post Office black and white compulsory registration label on reverse explaining that it has been compulsorily registered because 'it is crossed with blue lines'. Despite being overpaid by 8½d (Correct rate 5½d, 2½d postage + 3d registration) a 3d violet postage due applied at right and cancelled by a Hull cds for the 10th and a '3d TO PAY/POSTED/OUT OF/COURSE' handstamp applied at left. Seemingly Post-Office regulation must be obeyed even on VE day!

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