Group of 26 nineteenth century covers (and card), including 1862 correspondence of four stampless covers from the Bank of England addressed to Syndics of the Ottoman Loan of 1858, each with British Post Office arrival stamps in red; 1878 franking of five 1d reds (plate 193, two damaged) incl. two pairs from a block of four, along with ½d plate 13 all tied by blue bar cancels on registered cover with three different oval registration pmks in blue (Feb 19th Birmingham) and red (Feb 20th London and March 3rd Constantinople); attractive 1872 cover with 2d blue plate 13 strip of three combo with 6d mauve plate 9; 1862 combo of 1d stars with 1855 type 6d lilac, and 1863 cover with 1d stars alongside small letters 4d and 6d with manuscript ‘via Belgium’, large red shipping datestamp, Vienna transit cds and blue Constantinople arrival cds. Then 1856 1/- tied on unopened cover by superb Malta duplex with cryptic additional 4d rose (possibly to conceal a fault in the envelope), through to 2½d plates incl. blue plates 22 and 23 on two covers from Malta to same address. None of this has ever seen the philatelic market.