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Description: | Responsible for the historical collections of Royal Mail, covering more than 360 years of British postal history, and including the archive of Royal Mail containing records from 1636, stamps of Great Britain from the Penny Black onwards with their artwork, and British postal markings from 1661, artefacts including lposting boxes, vehicles, uniforms, sorting frames, sorting machines and handstamps. Philatelic material is listed separately under Philatelic Collection, but the collections include "non-philatelic material", that is products sold or available over Post Office Counters (postal orders, money orders, revenue stamps, telegrams, licences etc) and other documentary material (brochures, hand-outs etc) which provides a context for them. The archives also contain records of potential interest to family historians; material available ranges from appointment and pension records to local history, staff magazines, photographs, recruitment posters and uniforms | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 020 7239 2576 | Telephone: | 020 7239 2570 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:5099 | Go to resource |
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