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Scottish Additional Halfpenny Mail Tax marks. These marks were introduced in 1813 following the partial repeal of an Act of Parliament which had granted exemption of toll charges for mail coaches. With mail coaches being charged tolls in Scotland the Post Office responded by levying an extra halfpenny on all letters carried by mail coach in Scotland. The tax was abolished on 5th December 1839 with the introduction of Uniform Fourpenny Postage.
;) | 1826 (7 Jun) NEWCASTLE Add! ½ in green (H/S 176) on EL from London to Kelso. A Add Half mark should have been struck in London but was not due to confusion as to whether it was chargeable. Prior to summer of 1825 mail coaches had travelled via Berwick and mail to the border towns went on by horse post so was not chargeable. Mail coaches were then re-routed via Wooler and Coldstream to improve the speed of the mail between London and Edinburgh and thus mail to the border towns was carried by coach. | £45 |
;) | 1826 (26 Dec) NEWCASTLE Add! ½ in green (H/S 176) on EL from London to Kelso. A Add Half mark should have been struck in London but was not due to confusion as to whether it was chargeable. Prior to summer of 1825 mail coaches had travelled via Berwick and mail to the border towns went on by horse post so was not chargeable. Mail coaches were then re-routed via Wooler and Coldstream to improve the speed of the mail between London and Edinburgh and thus mail to the border towns was carried by coach. | £35 |
;) | 1823 (5 Nov) EDINBURGH Add! ½ on EL to Kelso (H/S13), rated 8½d. Edinburgh ds on reverse. The letter rate from Edinburgh to Kelso was reduced from 9½d to 8½d in 1821 presumably due to the mail coaches taking a shorter route bringing the distance below 81 miles. | £10 |
;) | 1821 (2 Apr) EDINBURGH boxed Add! ½ on EL to Kelso (H/S11), rated 9½d. Edinburgh ds on reverse. The letter rate from Edinburgh to Kelso increased from 8½d to 9½d in early 1820 and remained at that level till late in 1821. The length of the journey via Berwick was almost exactly 80 miles so a minor revision of the mail coach route would take it into the next band. | £10 |
;) | 1826 (20 Mar) NEWCASTLE Add! ½ in green (H/S 176) on EL from London to Kelso. A Add Half mark should have been struck in London but was not due to confusion as to whether it was chargeable. Prior to summer of 1825 mail coaches had travelled via Berwick and mail to the border towns went on by horse post so was not chargeable. Mail coaches were then re-routed via Wooler and Coldstream to improve the speed of the mail between London and Edinburgh and thus mail to the border towns was carried by coach. | £50 |
;) | 1827 (5 Jun) EL from London to Kelso without Additiional half. Rated only 1/1d and with London cds. In 1825 mail coaches were re-routed via Wooler and Coldstream to improve the speed of the mail between London and Edinburgh and thus mail to the border towns was carried by coach. In May 1827 the York mail coach was removed from the Morpeth, Coldstream, Edinburgh road and a horse post instituted. Thus mail to the border towns did not travel by coach and was not subject to the tax again. | £15 |
;) | 1829 (6 Feb) EL from Edinburgh to Kelso without Additiional half. Rated only 7d and with Edinburgh cds. From about June 1827 to May 1830 most mail was carried by horse post from Edinburgh to Morpeth and thus the additional half tax was not due. | £15 |
;) ;) | 1830 (Oct 21) LONDON boxed ½ on EL to Kelso. (H/S145) Rated 1/1½d. In October 1830 a curricle, a two wheeled carriage, was introduced between Newcastle, Coldstream and Edinburgh. Unusually the Treasury gave special instructions that the additional half was to be charged on mail carried by this service. (P.M.G. Report no 401 of 14/5/1830) | £15 |
;) | 1836 (18 Aug) LONDON boxed ½ on EL to Kelso. (H/S149) Rated 2/2½d (double rate). In October 1830 a curricle, a two wheeled carriage, was introduced between Newcastle, Coldstream and Edinburgh. Unusually the Treasury gave special instructions that the additional half was to be charged on mail carried by this service. (P.M.G. Report no 401 of 14/5/1830) | £15 |
;) | 1837 (6 July) LONDON boxed ½ in dirty green on EL to Kelso. (H/S149) Rated 1/1½d. In October 1830 a curricle, a two wheeled carriage, was introduced between Newcastle, Coldstream and Edinburgh. Unusually the Treasury gave special instructions that the additional half was to be charged on mail carried by this service. (P.M.G. Report no 401 of 14/5/1830) | £15 |
;) | 1833 (30 Apr) EDINBURGH Add! ½ on EL to Kelso. (H/S18) Rated 8½d. Small boxed datestamp in red is a Edinburgh too late mark hence the Edinburgh cds for May 1st as well. In October 1830 a curricle, a two wheeled carriage, was introduced between Newcastle, Coldstream and Edinburgh. Unusually the Treasury gave special instructions that the additional half was to be charged on mail carried by this service. (P.M.G. Report no 401 of 14/5/1830) | £15 |
;) | 1838 (22 Dec) EDINBURGH Add! ½ on EL to Kelso. (H/S19) Rated 7½d. In 1838 the rate from Edinburgh to Kelso dropped from 8½d to 7½d indicating that a shorter route was being used. | £15 |
;) | 1833 (28 Jan) EDINBURGH Add! ½ on EL to Kelso. (H/S18) Rated 8½d. Small boxed datestamp in red is a Edinburgh too late mark hence the Edinburgh cds for Jan 29 as well. In October 1830 a curricle, a two wheeled carriage, was introduced between Newcastle, Coldstream and Edinburgh. Unusually the Treasury gave special instructions that the additional half was to be charged on mail carried by this service. (P.M.G. Report no 401 of 14/5/1830) | £15 |
;) | 1826 (13 Mar) EDINBURGH unboxed Add! ½ (H/S 15) on EL to Kelso. Rated 7½d. In this period of time mail to the Border Towns was carried by mail coach as far as Coldstream so was subject to the tax. | £15 |
;) | 1815 (21 Mar) EL from London to Kelso not charged ½d tax. Charged 1/1d and with London ds. Kelso was one of the border towns where the tax was seldom charged but in fact this was because the letter would not travel by coach from Berwick. | £8 |
;) | 1817 (27 Feb) EL from Edinburgh to Kelso with Edinburgh boxed Add! ½ (H/S 7). Charged 8½d. Although Kelso was one of the 'Exempt Border Towns' in this case the letter would have travelled by coach from Edinburgh to Berwick and thus the tax was due. | £8 |
;) | 1832 (6 Feb) ABERDEEN inboxed '½' (H/S30) on EL to Sir James Gordon of Letterfourie. | £8 |
;) ;) | 1832 (19 Sep) GLASGOW Add! ½ in blue (H/S67) on cover to Oban with fine two line OBAN PENNY POST. Filing creases. Only found used in blue for two months. | £32 |
;) ;) | 1839 (24 Jun) GREENOCK boxed ½ (H/S75) on EL to Edinburgh. | £8 |
;) | 1839 (6 May) CUPAR FIFE boxed ½ in blue (H/S47) on EL from Kilmaron to Dunfermline. | £36 |
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