I took all these images myself of stuff I owned then.Rowland Hill designed a fast rotary printing machine for printing newspapers in 1835. which made use of large paper rolls. with the idea that the stamp tax be impressed during the printing. The Lords of the Treasury turned down the idea. He was proud of his press. In her biography of her father, Eleanor Hill Smith writes (page 71) “my father has been a school master, a rotary printing press inventor and a member of the South Australian Commission before he took up the cause of postal reform.” This is the original printing for the patent (6762) with a 35-page description by Hill and nine large-format engravings. A search on the WorldCat catalog shows only two libraries worldwide with this item.
An autograph letter signed Charles Knight to Rowland Hill dated 1830, on publishing matters. You told me .. that you would be kind enough to look at the mathematical part of the enclosed proof. Hill credited Knight with the idea of postage stamp. 
1837 Wyon City medal. Wyon's City Medal was the model for the head on the line-engraved postage stamps.
The Great Exhibition of 1851 had shown how deficient England was in art workmen. As a result the Society for the Encouragement of Arts , Manufacture and Commerce set-up prizes 'to stimulate progress.' One of the prizes was for cameo cutting in 1864. The competition work was to be executed after designs by an established artist. In the case of cameo-cutting the subject was to be the portraits of Queen Victorian and the Price Consort on the Juror’s medal for the Great Exhibition of 1851 by William Wyon. One of the two awards went to James Roca. The society instructed the competitors to copy their subject after a cast made available by the Society. The prize was a turning point for Roca. He was recommended to the Queen who needed a cameo cutter to produce cameos of her and the Prince for the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert. From 1865 to 1871 Roca exhibited his work at the Royal Academy. The pair of original large plasters shown here of Queen Victoria and Prince Consort by James Roca after William Wyon were possibly for an exhibit at the Royal Academy. To follow-up on this refer to the 'The Royal Academy of Arts: A complete Dictionary of Contributors and their Work 1764-1904' by Algernon Graves. See also 'James Roca: cameo-cutter to Queen Victoria' by J. Rudoe. Also of interest is PIacenti and Boardman, Ancient and Modern gems and jewels in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen, London 2008.
An original plaster cameo of the Queen for Kirby, Beard & Co. Whiting produced packaging for consumer products in addition to government stationary. See "Compound Plate Printing: a study of 19th Century colour Printing Process" by M. Greenland (1996 doctoral thesis at Reading University)That included sewing needles. Unfortunately Kirby's archives were destroyed in a fire. https://www.fiddlebase.com/needles/british-needle-makers/kirby-beard-co/ so you cannot point to a document. There were several companies doing color printing but the distinctive work of Beaufort House and design and caliber conclusively point to Whiting. See the Constance Mead Collection, Oxford university Press, and online Sir William Congreve and His Compound-Plate Printing by Harris, Elizabeth M. (1967) https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/591348 and the February 1992 Cavendish Auctions Robert Wallace Papers.
Images from the Cavendish sale can be found in Micheal Salmon's excellent The Life and Work of Charles whiting and the Beaufort House Press. In the London Philatelist January 2007.
For the dating of this particular item to this period can be gleaned from the hair style. See 'James Roca: cameo-cutter to Queen Victoria' by J. Rudoe
Background:
Rowland Hill wanted the Queens head on the stamp. Before they locked into postage stamp
the idea was for customers would bring in their paper to the post office and that
would get embossed for prepayment of postage.
Hill hired William Wyon to create the die for printing modeled from the famous City Medal.
Charles Whiting was to work with that. However, the collaboration didn't work out and Wyon left. Of course Whiting had the in-house talent viz, Alfred Deacon, to make a replacement.
Beaufort House Press had been doing compound plate printing that is multiple
colors aligned with embossing for ten years at point.
If you can get your hands on a copy of the Penny Postage Centenary there's an image on page 103
of Whitings cameo of the queen after Henry Weekes. See https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1902-1011-8651 Weekes appears to be the inspiration for Deacon and not Wyon.
No the Royal Philatelic Collection does not have an original plaster cast of the Queen
The Keepsake, 1833 annual. A literary magazine establish by Charles Heath. With a anaglyptograph of William IV after Wyon, with a design by Henry Corbould. Wyon, Heath and Corbould would later collaborate on the portrait of the Queen for the Penny Black. This photo-engraving process was used by L. Schonberg treasury essay.Anaglyptograph was a mechanically executed printed process used in security printing in the United States. See RM Phillips Collection POST 141/02.
The Spectator, 1839 - a weekly British conservative magazine 13' by 8.5', 1, 240 pages. The annual offers a comprehensive summary week-by-week of the parliamentary debates and legislation. Articles including March 2; a two-page supplement on Parliamentary report on postage, March 9; Rowland Hill's plan for securing the delivery of paid letter, April 9; The Duke of Richmond on Postage, June 9; Cheap Postage at home and abroad, June 9; the Postage Bill, July 13; Mr. Spring-Rice moves third reading of the Postage Bill, Aug.3; News of the Week entry, Aug. 31; Treasury Minutes on Postage, Nov. 16; A New-Year's Gift, 'My Lords' of the Treasury promise Penny Postage on the 10th of January!..., Dec. 28. The annual also includes a half-page petition for the uniform penny postage by the Mercantile Committee.
The most widely distributed publication of the Mercantile Committee was a short essay entitled Queen Victoria and the Uniform Penny Postage; A scene at Windsor Castle. The essay is here reproduced as an advertisement inside an instalment of Nicholas Nickleby April 1839. 
Two unused envelopes, one measuring 4 X 2 1/2 inches, the other 35 X 23 inches.The smaller envelope is charged double.Theses letters were produced by the Mercantile Committee in 1839 to demonstrate the senseless pricing of the mail service.The example came as an insert along with Henry Cole 's ' Fifty Years of Public Work ' A half-page text published by the Mercantile Committee in The Spectator, 1839 relating to the Uniform Penny Post.
The practice of evading postage by the receiver declining payment is illustrated in a famous story by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. First published in 'Letters, Conversations, and Recollections of Samuel Taylor Coleridge' 1836. This copy published, 1836 by Harper & Brothers. The anecdote was used by Rowland Hill in his 'Post Office Reform.'
A Hill-family copy of 'Post Office Reform; Its Importance and Practicality' This is a reprint in Pearson Hill's The Post Office of Fifty Years Ago, autographed F. Davenport Hill (1829'1919). She was the daughter of Rowland Hill's brother. The pamphlet famously includes proposals for the first postage stamps, as well as prepayment of postage, payment by weight instead of by the number of sheets and the use of envelopes.
Review of the Post-Office reform – Its Importance and Practicality by Rowland Hill; The Ninth Report of the Commissioners appointed to enquire into the Management of the Post-Office Department, etc in The Edinburgh Review Oct. 1839 - Jan. 1840; Spine is missing, otherwise fine. (not shown) Those heavy blue books' Rowland Hill called the stack of published material Robert Wallace lent him that formed the basis for 'Post Office Reform; Its Importance and Practicality.' The 5th report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Management of the Post Office Department'published about six months prior to Hill's book was of chief interest because it pertained to the cost of postage. The other reports mostly concerned the mail-coaches and administrative matters. Missing some of the spine and top of the bluecover, otherwise complete and good condition. 44 pages.
1834 letter from John Thompson (1785-1866), engraver of the Mulready envelope, to his daughter residing with his brother Charles. The detailed letter talks of current events. Of particular interest are the details of the Thompson family and his working shop. The brother, also an engraver, lived in Paris. 
A letter written by the printer/editor Robert Stephen Rintoul to Mr. John Thompson reads I shall be at the Chambers of Mr. Hill, at 44 Chancery Lane, It is just possible that we might have some questions to ask, if you can come for a little while. Inquire for me. Can any use be made of this? Your faithfully R.S. Rintoul. This came from the of the wood engraver Thompson who is credited with working on the Mulready envelope. The little group would meet at the Chancery Lane offices.
Three examples of the Mulready being ridiculed in text. 'The Ingoldsby Legends,' 1842 contains a humorous description of the Mulready envelope. Missing one cover. The envelope's were ridiculed by writers before the illustrators got to work. 'Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg' by Thomas Hood contains a humorous reference to Mulready envelopes. 'Dactyls to Mr. Mulready, inscribed on a government Envelope' A short humorous verse in the Punch annual for 1842.
Dick Doyle's Journal for 1840.' Richard Doyle published in 1840 by Fores, a series of Mulready caricatures. The heavily illustrated journal describes his work that year including the Mulready caricatures.
(Not shown) Fores's Comic Envelope, No. 1. the first Mulready caricature. A stained and cropped example of the broadsheet mounted onto a scrapbook page. Folded and addressed. Fores Comic Envelope, No. 1. A stained and cropped front addressed with a replacement 1d black not cancelled, stamped Store Street. (Shown) Spooner's no.12 illustration recirculated.The Mulready caricature was posted in November 1840, then reused in December 1840 affixed onto an envelope from Baltinglass. A common practice, though not illegal, was to fold over envelopes. A famous turned envelope is the May - 2 / 4 Morpeth Mulready which fetched a world record price, $2.4 million. The Penny Black was abandoned because of concern over it being reused.Another envelope sold(Lot, 617) at Cavendish sale 763 dated 9 Nov.1840 usage of the Spooner No.2 Mulready Caricature envelope addressed to 'Hepworth, Ixworth, Suffolk and then re-posted to Dedham, Essex. The catalogue states it is believed be the only recorded caricature reused with a 1d Black inside.'
An undated letter signed by the Editor of the Times John Delane to a subordinate Ought there not be a notice of the Mulready exhibition at Kensington It seems to me more important than either of the other two things you suggest though I should be glad to find room for all. The letter illustrates the high regard Mulready had and why he should have been chosen to draw the postal envelope.
Act announces '... Letters written on stamped paper or enclosed in stamped covers, or having a stamped affixed thereto... Shall..pass by the post free of postage...' This act establishes the penny rate and states the end of franking, the new lower rates to be charged by Postmaster General, the introduction of stamped covers, Provision of stamps, definition of 'letter to be deemed all papers transmitted by post.' 17th August, 1839 'An Act for the Regulation of Duties of Postage until the Fifth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and forty.' The 1840 'An Act for the Regulation of Duties of Postage,' with annotations in pencil. On the first page is hand written 'Clerk of the Peace.' The act replaces earlier postage regulations with key provisions that include: Letters to be charged by weight, inland letters, colonial letters, ship letters, foreign, packet boats, stamped covers, postage due, provisions of stamps die production and forgery, paper manufacture, etc.
December 5, 1839 is the first day of issue under the postal reforms. The Uniform Fourpenny Post was the first component of the comprehensive reform to the Royal Mail postal service. The Postage Act was passed on 17 August 1839 in which the Penny Postage system was passed. It gave the Treasury until October 1840 to introduce the system. Hill proposed an interim rate of four pence. From 5 December 1839 until 9 January 1840 a uniform charge of 4d was levied for pre-paid letters up to half an ounce in weight instead of postage being calculated by distance and number of sheets of paper. Mail posted during the fourpenny post period were marked with a figure 4applied either in manuscript, or with a hand-stamp that were issued to a limited number of cities in Great Britain and Ireland. An example of the 4 rate hand-stamp. December 10, 1839 folded letter from Dublin to Edinburgh with reverse with De 10, 39 boxed origin and receiving postmarks in red. January 9, 1840. Free front posted by Lord Rayleigh from witham on the last day of the priviledge. Free franking required the sender to add his signature to the front. These were one of the earliest forms of postal collection with the result that many of covers are fronts only for display in scrapbooks. That the autographed free frank covers were avidly collected in indicated in a January 1840 issue of the Mirror; Great value is attached to some franks; One by Lord Byron has been known to fetch seven guineas at an auction. The Spectator December 28, 1839 writes A NEW YEARS GIFT, ... on the 10th of January penny-pre-paid will frank Half an ounce weight of written paper ...Official franking and the Queens privilege are to cease on the same day. Alas for a number of poor creatures in both Houses of Parliament! with franking their principal occupation will gone.
1840 (10 Jan.) entire letter to Rye from solicitors in Essex Street Strand marked at foot In Parcel and refers to two documents enclosed with a faint strike of tombstone Paid and handstruck 1 . Used as newspaper parcel wrapper on the first day.
1840 MAY 13th; 1d Mulready red London Maltese cross to Dublin A30, letter code E. with a receiving handstamp T.P.Temple and Dublin Diamond 5E. Mike Jackson's May Dates lists nine Penny Mulreadys with the Dublin stamp earlier than this cover. 1840 MAY 15th; This is the first of the letter stamps I have used... 1d Mulready red London Maltese cross to a Miss Crisp at GedgraveNear Banbury, Oxforshire. Wolverhampton standard double arc on front without code. 1840 MAY 20th 1d Mulready red London Maltese cross to Suffolk A143, to a Miss Crisp at Gedgrave Near Orford with a London Chief Office evening duty c.d.s., letter K code used May 9, 20 and 29. See May Dates A survey of Penny Blacks, Twopenny Blues, Mulreadys and Caricatures used during May 1840 - Mike Jackson Pg 12-13. The cover was torn and repaired with old stamp edging. 1840 MAY 26th 1d Mulready letter sheet red London Maltese cross to Dartmouth A50, with a London Chief Office evening duty c.d.s., letter 'Z' code used May 5, 15 and 26. See May Dates A survey of Penny Blacks, Twopenny Blues, Mulreadys and Caricatures used during May 1840 - Mike Jackson Pg 12-13. Creased and dark color. Crossed-out addresses are usually found on forwarded items. A person could leave a forwarding address at the post office, and during some periods, it would be forwarded without charge. Part cover May 30th. 1840 with a London Chief Office evening duty c.d.s., letter M code used May 11, 20 and 30th. See May Dates A survey of Penny Mulreadys and Caricatures used during May 1840 - Mike Jackson Pg 12-13.
Charles Dickens 'The Queen's Head' published in Household words, 1852. 'This miniature Queen's head - which Mr. Rowland Hill's penny postage has called into existence - is the product of a system introdued into this country by Mr. Jacob Perkins...Mr. Archer invented a machine to 'notch' and 'puncture' them in their natal hour...' 
Abuse of franking. On bifolium. Fair, on lightly-aged and creased paper. Writing six months before his death on 26 August 1826, Hely-Hutchinson informs Dawson that he has been 'confined to this Hotel by a complaint in my bowels, with some pain, since Monday last'. As some of his 'reasonable friends have taken advantage of my being thus in prison and have given me more letters than I can direct', he asks Dawson if he will 'assist' - in other words if he will agree to abuse his privilege as a fellow-Member of Parliament to frank the correspondence of Hely-Hutchinson's friends. Hely-Hutchinson concludes: 'I hope you are all well at Rome, as they are at Brighton'. Christopher Hely-Hutchinson (1767-1826), fifth son of Baroness Donoughmore and John Hely-Hutchison, Member of Parliament for Cork City [George Robert Dawson (1790-1856), MP for County Londonderry. Union Hotel, Cockspur Street [London]. 6 March 1826. Abuse of franking. One page, 4to. In good condition, but with minor loss to all four corners due to clumsy removal from mount. 'Sir | I request not having been enabled to comply with your request of sending you a Frank, but, not having taken my Seat in the House of Lords, I have thought it right to abstain from Franking any letters whatsoever - [last three words underlined] | I am Sir | Yr obt Serv | G A Brodrick'. George Alan Brodrick, 5th Viscount Midleton, Peper Harow; no date (watermark 'J GREEN & SON | 1835' Anglo-Irish aristocrat (1806-48). A four-sided single sheet letter to Piccadilly (late 1830s) cross-written to save money.
To Colonel W.L. Maberly, Secretary of the General Post Office, from Gen. Basil Godfrey, complaining that a letter posted to him in Newport Monmouthshire on 20th December has just reached him, 'a simple reference to the London guide book would have acquainted the letter Carrier with his proper address, viz. Eaton instead of Grosvenor Square, as originally addressed', cross-written on the letter is the result of the Post Office investigation signed by Frederic Kelly, saying that the original address read 'Grosvenor Square Eaton', and that the letter went first to Eton, then Eaton in Bedfordshire, so that it was treated first 'as a Country letter', the London letter carriers assure the investigator that 'all the three country addresses which appear on the letter were on it when it passed through their hands . it is impossible to state with certainty where the error first occurred', 4 sides 8vo., a little worn, fold strengthened with old transparent paper. An 1819 hand-delivered letter to Sir. Francis Freeling. '...The packet Mr.R.has again sent to the office by one of the carriers, in order that being examined by the proper authority the postage may be reduced to the sum which Mr. Freeling is so good as to state, on the contents justifying it.
An personal letter signed Ric. Cobden (Richard Cobden 1804-1865) to Rowland Hill dated 1849, thanking Hill in connection with employment offered to a colleague. Cobden is today remembered in association with the corn laws, however, he played an important part in the postal reforms.
An 1834 copy of the Penny Magazine 'The History and present State of the Post-Office' which includes an interior and exterior view of the Lombard Street Post-Office. The 1824 'An Act for enabling a Conveyance to be made of Part of a House in Lombard Street, vested in the Right Honourable Henry Frederick Lord Carteret, formerly His Majesty's Postmaster General.' Includes a 1831 printed copy of 'An Act for enabling His Majesty to appoint a Postmaster General for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Illustrated London News, March 24 1855 with the famous illustration showing the New Street Letter-Box. An interior view and a representation of the letter-box at the corner of Fleet Street and Farringdon Street. 
Illustrated London News, 1844 with the often reproduced illustration showing the Inland Letter Office; in addition to illustrations of The Letter carrier's office, the money order vaults, packing the India Mail, Letter-bag hoist, the office Letter Railroad, the Newspaper bin. 
Results of the New Penny Postage Arrangements' July 1841, Rowland Hill. 16pp from the Quartely Journal of the Statistical Society of London. 'On the Effects of the New Postage Arrangements upon the Number of Letters' March 1840, Rowland Hill. 4pp read before the Statistical Society of London. The British Almanac of the Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge, 1841. Includes an article 'Effects of the New Post Office Arrangements Upon the Number of Letters.'
Report from the Secret Committee of the House of Lords relative to the Post Office, Aug. 7th, 1844, to inquire in the state of the law in respect to detaining and opening of letters at the post office. 3pp bound copy. The issue of opened mail was the heart of the cry for postal reform when Hill published his 1837 pamphlet.
July 6th, 1844 Punch published the 'Anti-Graham' spoof of the Mulready envelope by John Leech. The illustration was later engraved as an envelope for use. The Punch illustration was not reproduced in the 1844 annual and remains very rare. 
Punch Vol VI with several often reproduced images relating to the introduction of the penny postage: Rowland Hill's triumphal Entry into St. Martin's-le-Grand, Britannia presenting Rowland Hill with the Sack, Post Office Peep Show, Penny a peep, Not to be Grahamed, Mercury giving Sir James, Anti-Graham wafers, Paul Pry at the Post Office.
The Plan for a Uniform penny Postage Considered' by John Gladstone to the Chancellor of the Exchequer dated Oct. 1839. This copy from the Gladstone library. 3 pp. 'A Uniform Penny Postage, The third report of the Select Committee' on Postage.' Unknown author and date 4
The Only correct edition of the PENNY POSTAGE ACT. The New Act for Reducing the Postage on all letters to a Uniform rate of One Penny.' published by Foster and Hextall, 1839. Eight pages.
1841 House of Commons, 9pp petitions protesting against transmission of country letters through the London Post Office on Sundays. W. L. Maberly. Postal use on Sunday was another attempt by Rowland Hill to add revenue. His plan to forward letters from one provincial town to another via London was approved by Col. Marbely began in November 1849. All collection and delivery of mail was stopped June 23, 1850.
July 1850, OHMS printed form-letter relating to a money order, with Rowland Hill stamped on the front. The Postmaster General gave Hill the responsibility of the money order department in 1846. Hill had addressed the issue of money orders in 1838.1847 remittance letter, pre-printed on money order account. Hill took over from Maberly in in 1850.
Two official letters from Rowland Hill as Secretary of the Post office. The letters were sent to the U.S. Postmaster General in Washington D.C. for correspondences between the U.S. and the London Post Office. Hill was made Secretary to the Postmaster General, and then Secretary to the Post Office from 1854 until 1864. Sir, I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 4th instant, enclosing a bill of the charge for the sum of twelve thousand three hundred and ninety-nine pounds five shillings and ten pence, in payment of the balance due to the correspondence exchanged between the two Post offices during the quarter ended the 31st March last, I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant, Rowland Hill. In his autobiography Hill's states that a proposal for the conveyance of mail was exchanged with the United States in 1848, establishing a fixed rate between the countries among other changes, but not wholly adopted. The payment referred to is for the transport of letters across the U.S.
1853 Copies of correspondence between Sir John Pakington and the Post-master-General, in the year 1852, in reference to the Reduction in the rates of colonial postage. 1855 The present postal engagements agreed to between the United States and England and of the correspondence for modification of the present agreement. 130 pages - Rowland Hill.
Sir John Tilley to Perkins, Bacon, on official blue GPO registered stationary to Perkins, Bacon, June 3, 1861: 'Gentlemen, In reply to your letter of the 31 ... I beg leave to state that coloured drawings of stamps in question will suffice.' Colours were introduced in 1855-1857. In 1862 came the issue of the five coloured values with small white corner letters for security. Tilley was assistant secretary to the post office and officially succeeded Rowland Hill in 1864 as secretary, however a letter dated 8 August 1860 at the Post Office Heritage indicates that he was already Secretary of the Post Office. This letter indicates Tilley in a position of considerable responsibility.
Ormond Hill to Perkins, Bacon, March 11, 1871: My Dear Sir, Sometime a go you gave me many specimens of the colonial postage stamps with cancel mark... them. A friend of mine an arrant collector is much in want of one of them you gave me ... the St. Johns Newfoundland 1 shilling. if you have one of thes which you could give me for him I would be very much oblidged... Official embossed stationary. stained There are a few examples of Ormond Hill requesting stamps from Perkins Bacon. This resulted in a stern disapproval in the 1860s from the Office of the Agents-General for Crown Colonies. 
Ormond Hill to Perkins, Bacon, July 1, 1875, published in the Perkins Bacon Records by Percy de Worms, page 719. My Dear Sir, The gentleman I send herewith with Mr. Esslingen belongs to the Wutemtenburg P.O. He is desirous of seeing the printing of the postage stamps. If you have any objections with ... kindly afford him the opportunity and oblige ... Official embossed stationary. stained. 
Ormond Hill to Perkins, Bacon, Jan. 30, 1872, published in the Perkins Bacon Records by Percy de Worms, page 539. Gentlemen, We find that we have a ream of halfpenny watermarked paper in stock with a memorandum on it stating that the word postage has been omitted in the margin. I shall be glad if you can inform me why this defective ream was sent here, instead of being retained at the mill and worked up into the pulp... Official embossed stationary. stained. 
Edwin Hill to Perkins, Bacon, Sept. 23, 1861, published in the Perkins Bacon Records by Percy de Worms, page 713. Dear Sir, The bearer Mr. John G. Brown late Postmaster of Jamaica wishes to the postage Depart. I shall be obliged if you will .. to him ... Official embossed stationary. stained. Of this letter de Worms writes that it had been brought to the attention of Perkins, Bacon that British stamps were being used in Jamaica. Edwin Hill to Perkins, Bacon, Aug. 16, 1862, published in the Perkins Bacon Records by Percy de Worms, page 684. Dear Sir, I beg to introduce to Mr. Van de Wull Master of the mint at Utrecht and shall be pleased of you will allow him to see the stamps... Official embossed stationary. stained.
'Copy of Treasury Minute granting a special superannuation allowance to Sir Rowland Hill, Secretary of the Post Office,' along with published copy of a letter from Hill. A low and uniform rate forms the mosty essential feature of my plan...its conception orginated wholly with myself... Difficulties with the Postmaster General led to his resignation in 1864.
Rowland Hill manuscript signed note, undated: Hampstead, Monday, n.y. to 'my dear Birbeck, enclosing a picture of Clifton which 'tells its own tale.' The Hill family addressed his George Birkbeck Norman Hill, as Birkbeck. He was the son of Rowland Hill's brother, Arthur. Rowland Hill co-authored his autobiography with Birkbeck Hill. A copy of an email from the Hill family indicates that 'Clifton' is not thought to be a member of the Hill family.
January 24 1872, official acknowledgment from the Lord Chancellor of England, Hugh McCalmont Cairns to Secretary of the Post office, Sir John Tilley: I have to acknowledge Mr. Tilleys letter of the above number and to thank on my own behalf and that of the residents around me for the attention with our postal arrangement which you promised. I have ...further to hope that this change may be made with as little delay as practical. Col. Maberly had chosen John Tilley first assistant secretary under Rowland Hill. The other assistant was Hill’s brother Frederic. Tilley succeeded Rowland Hill as secretary and in the early 1870s significant changes were made including postcards and notably the original proposal of Rowland Hill that an ounce letter should go for a penny.
A letter on Athenaeum Club stationery by Lyon Playfair on the announcement of his appointment as Post Master General. Rowland Hill, Playfair, Edwin Chadwick, John Stuart Mill and others formed a society called Friends in Councilwhich met at each other's houses to discuss politics and economy. The Athenaeum Club was frequented by established professionals and a support for the postal reforms. Includes a 1866 printed copy of An Act to enable the Post Master General to sit in the House of Commons.
Letter 9 July 1891; 'It is impossible to trace the obstructiveness of the Postal department to any particular officials; they stand shoulder to shoulder, defiant and impenetrable, like a square of infantry'. Nevertheless Heaton has 'succeeded in getting some reforms of importance inserted in the Post Office Acts Amendment Bill'. Mentions 'permission to send circulars in unclosed envelopes' and briefly discusses the postage of newspapers to the Colonies. Concludes that it is 'only a question of time; and I will never rest until all the postal regulations are inspired by common sense, and bare justice.' Sir John Henniker Heaton (1848-1914), MP, Canterbury. Howard Robinson writes This untiring postal reformer played a part in the late nineteeth century not unlike Robert Wallace fifty years before. He is chiefly remebered for reducing postage rates but in connexion with parcels post, telegrams, the telephone, and money orders; on embossed House of Commons letterhead. 3 pp. with the leaves of the bifolium separated, and reattached with three tissue mounts. 
Letter, 7 June 1890; 3 pp. His 'answer to Mr. King' is that 'under the present system the Post Office is completely under the control of the Treasury, and the Post Master General is little more than a clerk of the Treasury. The Treasury looks at the questions submitted to them from the point of view of the Exchequer and with a view to obtaining a continually growing revenue from the Post Office'. Suggestions for improvement of the service are 'continually & systematically refused'. The only way he can see to 'restore to the Post Master General some initiative in the matter of improvements in the service' is by 'coming to an understanding that a definite amount of net surplus say 3 millions of pounds a year shall be expected from the Post Office and that any excess beyond that shall be devoted to improvements'. George John Shaw-Lefevre, Postmaster-General under Gladstone and reformer (See Howard Robinson.) He entered Gladstone's cabinet in November 1884 when he was appointed. 
Thomas Campbell's The Pleasures of Hope with illustrations engraved by Charles Heath, printed by Perkins, Fairman and Heath. Until 1820 engravings used copper plates. The Pleasures of Hope introduced the more durable steel engraving, ideal for bank notes. The book had gone through several prior editions. The 1820 prints were the first to use hardened steel.
A letter dated 1831 by Charles Heath (1785-1848) promising to repay a debt. Heath was sued by his publisher and the judges of the Court of King's Bench sided with the publisher. The same copyright issue was repeated with the stamps, and Perkins Bacon was briefly punished and the printing of stamps stopped. Heath had co-founded with Jacob Perkins the printing firm. Joshua Butters Bacon bought out the Heath's interest. 
An 1819 Perkins, Fairman & Heath Sidographic advertising specimen of The plan for preventing forgery of bank notes, with further security designs printed on reverse in blue.The design was printed in pursuit of a contract with the Bank of England. 
A sidographic specimen plate dated 1819. The following is the description of Lot# 183 in Cavendish sale 160: ...a very rare Prevention of Forgery article by Perkins & Co. for the Society for the encouragement of the Arts.. Journal of 1820 with a range of engraved designs, including two minute circles containing the whole of the Lord's Prayer, a fine portrait of a profile head with laurels (in a circular inscription PERKINS, FAIRMAN & HEAT SIDEROGRAPHIA, figures of Britannia, a complex chain design, etc. [Illustrated in G. W. Granzow's recent book, page 41.] Many of the elements of this Essay sheet were to appear 20 years later in the 1d Black design, although they were initially intended for securely printed banknotes. Spectacular and very rare Exhibition Item of which this may be the only example in private hands.
The Lord's Prayer printed in microscopic type, by Perkins, Fairman & Heath published in the London and Westminster Review dated march 1840. This item is mistakenly included by Robson Lowe, page 125. A copy of Volume XXXIII of the London and Westminster Review. Illustrations removed, much abused copy with pages missing and without covers. This issue of the review introduced to the public to the designs proposed for both stamps and envelopes including this Lord's Prayer page to accompany an article 'On the Collection of Postage by means of Stamps by Rowland Hill. 
Security background proof a43:c1850 a background proof on thin card (67 x 126 mm) from the top right of the sheet numbered in blue crayon A43. The use illustrated with 1860 GB 1/6d customs stamp with m/s cancellation, and mint reversed on 1852-68 Barbados OE(c)d pair, 1851 Trinidad 1d blue and 1854-61 Mauritius red-brown overprinted LPE. (5 items). This engine-turned background is an example of the lighter background that was initially submitted by Perkins, Bacon, first die, for the Penny Black and rejected as too light. See page 151, Muir fir similar examples. 
Proofs for British Linen Company 1 pound 1861-4. This was a design by Perkins, Bacon & Petch initially for the Bank of Scotland, 1825. The engine-turned pattern was submitted for use as background on the Penny Black. See Phillips Vol XLVI - engine-turning.jpg. See Robson Lowe, page 119.
Two documents: A request for Queens Head stamps dated Nov. 9, 1843 letter from D.C Cameron in Barcaldine to Postmaster Cameron at Bonaw sending 5/- for Queens Head stamps. Manuscript account from the archives of Thorn & Dickson, stamp office in Alnwick for January 1841, listing Postage stamp stock, reams and sheets of 20 x 1d, 10 x 2d covers,20 x 1d envelopes, 20 x 2d envelopes (Mulready), 1d labels are Penny Blacks. This would have been in the final weeks for the 1d black. The red came out the beginning of February,1841.
Additonal documents relating to the stamp office: Letter from Ellingham regarding a bill for stamps to be sent for post bag, addressed to the stamp office in Alnwick Letter regarding a bill addressed to the stamp office in Alnwick, 1815 1790 newspaper with a revenue stamp, with a 1768 London Magazine. c.1820- 1830 unused carriage license from the stamp office Alnwick Stamp Office distributors account form for stock and value of parchment paper 1845. The 1805 An Act to amend the laws for improving and keeping in repair the pst roads in Ireland, and for rendering the conveyance of letters by his majesty s post office more secure and expeditious.
Letter to Perkins, Bacon & Co. , Oct. 9, 1863, published in the Perkins Bacon Records by Percy de Worms, page 714. Two pages, stained, yellowed. Gentlemen, Referring to your entertaining with our friend Mr. Martin, we want for the German Post-Department the whole apparator for its supply of postage stamps and envelopes to the amount of 10 to 12 million and 15 million postage stamps. Till to now nearly all proceedings for the manufacture of this article has been by hand labour except all cutting envelopes and printing stamps. First stamps were printed and then dyed a few days after the process of gumming drying and again for a few days before they were perforated by hand labour as well as the process of gumming. Envelopes were first made by machine and the folded by an another and at last gummed by hand labour. We beg now to ask if you make machines, which in cutting and folding envelopes gumm them in the same process, or if a separated machine or if a separated machine is necessary and if you have machines which in printing are perforating them too; start, we want to supply a government with the necessary articles for printing, gumming and perforating postage stamps and likewise ... the stamps on envelopes and gumming them, with folding and cutting opparator. We beg you to give us a full explanation of the whole process and the machines ... De Worms writes At the date of the following letter Frankfurt a.M. was one of the chief cities within the postal administration of Thurn and Taxis, and the stamps of both Northern and Southern districts had been printed here. 
Letter to Perkins, Bacon, July 6, 1872, published in the Perkins Bacon Records by Percy de Worms, page 691. from Servian Copper & Iron Company Ltd. Gentlemen,Will you let me know the price of a plate for the ... notes enclosed I saw Mr. Harris the other day and ... the the postage stamps. His thoughts have been too busy with the coronation at Belgrade to inquire.Stained, yellowed. 
Letter to Perkins, Bacon, Sept. 16, 1872, published in the Perkins Bacon Records by Percy de Worms, page 690. from Servian Copper & Iron Company Ltd. Gentlemen, Mr. Spassits has received instructions form Belgrade and inquires about postage stamps. I will call on you with him Tuesday next 12:30 to 1. Letter includes a delivery memoranda to Servian. Stained, yellowed. About this letter de Worms writes that Perkins, Bacon had submitted an estimate for postage stamps in Serbia and in consequence received this Sept. 16th letter. images/perkins-dobson Letter to Perkins, Bacon, June 24, 1854: Gentlemen, I am directed by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue to request that you will reimburse this revenue with the sum of 160 pounds, bring at the rate of 80 pounds for each double pair of paper label plates, in accordance with the terms of your letter of the 22 Dec. 1854. Thomas Dobson. Stained, yellowed. Paper labels refer to the postage stamps. This appears to indicate that the plates were acquired by the Inland revenue and sold to Perkins, Bacon. 
Letter to Perkins, Bacon, Dec. 19, 1855: Dear Sir, Would you have the goodness of sending me a list of all the postage stamps your firm manufactured for all of the colonies together with the presses we supplied with them. If you can send specimens of the stamps it will be more desirable. The Office of The Agents-General for Crown Colonies would request quartely a list of or specimens of stamps and envelopes supplied to the colonies. stained and yellowed. 
1d red from black plate 10 lettered RG, with P=R variety, used on letter-sheet (filing crease through stamp) London to Wellington 25 February 1841. The Pichai sale had a cover dated 26th February which it claimed was the earliest. Statham gives March 4th and Alan Oliver gives 24th February. Also, three 1841 1d red covers, plates 11, 3 and 7. Other examples of 1841 1d red covers. 1858 set of penny red plates 71-225, including a phoney plate 77. Additionally a representative selection penny reds 1840-1857. Acceptable-to-good condition. The plate 225 is very fine. Two examples of the Life Policy stamps which used same design of the Queens head found on the Penny Black. Penny black plate 4 good margins A few examples of the two pence blue including cover July 1844, 5 strip good margins imperf AG to AK, 930 numeral stamp, cover bottom-cropped. Includes a basic mint collection (see image) GB after the Penny Red through to the 1980s. No high value items.
Four items: On new Lathe Carriers. Invented by Jacob Perkins, Esq. Covil Engineer, London. with an engraved illustration. Bank of Ireland half note; Henry Corbould painted a water-color impression of Queen Victoria's head from the Wyon City medal and sent this to Perkins, Bacon in 1837. This image was engraved and use on provincial bank notes including this Bank of Ireland half note. The notes were officially torn in half and delivered separately for security. Includes an account of the Total nominal value of forged bank Bank of England 2pp. Folio. British Parliamentary Paper. HC 295. Dated 14 May 1818. Parliamentary papers of this period are rare.A letter from Leeds Bank Beckett & co. letter to Perkins Bacon with 2 red h/s 1d. Entire Letter to the famous London engravers for specimen cheques, bills and Letters of Credit, unusually the first red h/s 1d has been struck inverted and scored through, struck again alongside fine red oval PAID at LEEDS.
Reports of the majority and Minority of the committee of the Senate on the Post Office and post roads together with documents accompanying the same, 1835. Complete 86 pages. It's quite surprising what a mess .
Daniel Webster's Senate Resolution of June 10, 1840. The Royal Philatelic Collection includes a copy which was exhibited at the U.S. National Postal Museum in 2004. The U.S. Senate resolution on 'a reduction of the postage on Letters' submitted by Daniel Webster of Massachusetts. A leading senator who later became Secretary of State, Webster submitted his resolution on June 10, 1840--about a month after the first British stamps were issued. Webster proposed 'to connect the use of stamps, or stamped covers, with a large reduction in the rates of postage.' He attached a London newspaper's reproduction of a British Post Office notice announcing the first stamps, and a facsimile of the British 'Mulready' postal stationery.
1. Illustrated covers, following the Mulready envelope, gained a foothold evolving into adversing and direct mail. Two years after the Mulready envelope Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol and Henry Cole introduced the first commercial Christmas Card the same year, 1843. The card was reprinted in his autobiography, immediately following his death. This copy of the print was a gift to Cole's widow from their daughter Henriette. The book is also signed by another family member, presumably handed down. 2. Frontispiece for Master Humphrey's Clock in a copy of The Old Curiosity Shop, 1850. The frontispiece, drawn by Hablot Knight Brown, 1840, was almost certainly the inspiration for Henry Cole's Christmas card. 
French 18th Century printed sheet with manuscript beautiful verse of a parent expressing his love for his child. The earliest Valentines are hand drawn but in the 18th century some printers offered blank sheets with crude decorative frame. 1840s Two examples of vinegar Valentine. Pre-printed Valentine cards preceded Christmas cards by several decades. Vinegar Valentines are greeting cards, or rather insult cards. They are decorated with a caricature, and below an insulting poem. The post office forbade the practice of posting offensive Valentines but both the Valentine card and the Christmas card grew in popularity. French 18th Century printed sheet with manuscript beautiful verse of a parent expressing his love for his child. The earliest Valentines are hand drawn but in the 18th century some printers offered blank sheets with crude decorative frame.
P. Charleton of Philadelphia had already secured copyright for the earliest private mailing card in 1861. Lipman was the first to carry through the first commercial application of the private mailing cards. The United States invented the postal card, Austria would be the first to issue one. Postal Card essay, American Post Card Co.This is one of only three cards approved by the U.S. Patent Office. Patent #51,623 was grated to Charles A. Rowland of Clinton, Ill. on December 19th 1865; Rowland later applied to improve his design with Patent #117818 on August 8th 1871, and then assigned his rights to the American Post Card Company. The message is intended to be written on the inner side of the lower panel, then folded and sealed by the top and side flaps. Ex-Carol Huey collection. 
First government issued prepaid post card 1870 example.Neue FreiePresse 1869 Sr.Emanuel Herrmann Uber eine neue Art der Korrespondenz mittels der Post.(See Letters, Postcards, Email: Technologies of Presence by Esther Milne) 1871; Postal cards were first introduced by the British Post Office on Oct.1870.1873: Balloon card unused: During the siege of Paris, mail could be sent by balloon.Feb.1873 France post card: On December 20, 1872, the law was passed to introduce postal cards.these were not made available until January 15, 1873. An early printed picture post card could be the 1873 U.S. UX1 postal cards with an advertising image with text on the front and address, message and stamp on the back. I have found earlier. I also believe I also believe that earliest use of an image from photograph is 1882. So if someone can please correct me here I would be grateful.Page 790 of the appendix to the Congressional Globe In 1871, Representative John Hill of New Jersey introduced a bill in Congress authorizing postal cards, but approval was delayed. The Act of June 8, 1872, authorized the Postmaster General to issue postal cards for the "transmission … at a reduced rate of postage, of messages, orders, notices, and other short communications" on "good stiff paper, of such quality, form, and size, as he shall deem best adapted for general use."
Edward William Ashbee, 1 October 1870; on letterhead '17, MORNINGTON CRESCENT, N.W.' Thanks his correspondent for the 'polite communication'. 'I anticipate the new postal arrangements will bring the postmen a large increase of work: - the Card system especially is a very useful feature, that will develope its many advantages as time progresses.' Wishes Joy and family good health 'this glorious weather'. Signed 'E. W. Ashbee'. 
The origins of postal stationery - the Venetian AQ 4 soldi letter-sheet; c.1600s printed Venetian AQ sheet with no message inside but clearly addressed locally in Italian. The printed text inside states that letters to Government officials had to be written on these sheets that were sold for 4 soldi which went towards helping maintain the city's flood defences. These AQ sheets are often cited as the earliest form of prepaid letter-sheets (and so Postal Stationery) in the world. Good Page One for the Origins of the 1d Black story.
House of Commons, 1p Red on White front sent by Sir George Grey to The Honourable [HNB] Lady Grey, Rev M. H. Thompson [B.A.], Foreham, Hants. It is signed although paid for. Printed To be posted at the House of Commons only. Post Paid.--ONE PENNY.--Weight not to exceed -1/2 oz. at top of Parliamentary envelope, clear red strike dated April 29 1840, crowned circle handstamp. Grey was by then admitted to the Queen's Privy Council. Early example of a preprinted letter sheet OHMS, 1808 Sept. 1815 preprinted cover cropped, postpaid private. 
The Mulready Envelope was a failure, however one of the biggest success stories of the Rowland Hill postal reform is the envelope itself and the biggest headache for Hill. They had to be cut by hand until George Wilson arrived. I have the original patent (illustrated with large engravings) by George Wilson 1844 for cutting paper for the manufacture of envelopes. Do a quick search for history of the envelope and you ll see how important he is. For example the Wikipedia writes: Up until 1840, all envelopes were handmade, each being individually cut to the appropriate shape out of an individual rectangular sheet. In that year George Wilson in the United Kingdom patented the method of tessellating (tiling) a number of envelope patterns across and down a large sheet, thereby reducing the overall amount of waste produced per envelope when they were cut out. In 1845 Edwin Hill and Warren de la Rue obtained a patent for a steam-driven machine that not only cut out the envelope shapes but creased and folded them as well. (Mechanised gumming had yet to be devised.) The convenience of the sheets ready cut to shape popularized the use of machine-made envelopes, and the economic significance of the factories that had produced handmade envelopes gradually diminished. No offense taken if you're not interested in any of this. I also have several examples of pre-mulready lozenge envelopes, wafers. 
1837 envelope letter to Aberdeen. Example of the lozenge envelope before the Mulready. 1839 envelope free frank to Sussex. Example of the lozenge envelope before the Mulready. Dec. 1843 small envelope with a wafer seal. These saw some use a an alternative to wax. An 1843, showing other alternatives to seal wax prior to gumming. 1d brown to Canada 1858. The envelope is embossed with a little embossed frame to place the stamp in. This would have been privately made. It's not intended as postage. The word FREE embossed on the envelope. Presumably, this was to indicate that the envelope can be receiver, being prepaid with a stamp. This envelope has to have been produced around the introduction of the Penny Black, May 1840.
A 19th Century Dutch collection of wax seals organized and labelled in a scrapbook. 
The complete letter writer, or, Young secretary's instructor : containing a great variety of letters on friendship, duty, love, amusement, business, &c. : to which is prefixed, plain instructions for writing letters on all occasions by Dilworth,Thomas, 1710 instructs on how the make sealing wax, ink and other practical advice. Charles Whiting has a special place in the development of the post office. Some of this is illustrated below thanks to Michael Salmon's The Life and Work of Charles Whiting and the Beaufort House Press, 2007.
License for Hawker. On 21 June, 1838 Charles Whiting proposed Congreve compound plate printing to produce envelope and labels for the prepayment of postage. Whiting stated in his evidence that he was printing two coloured hawkers licences on behalf of the stamp office. Shows the oval reticulated lathe work of Alfred Deacon adopted in the final postal stationary design. 
William IV trade card of Joseph Rodgers & Sons, No 6, Norfolk Street, Sheffield and The Royal Exchange. Congreve security and embossed compound printing by Charles Whiting of London. 1835 This rare early example includes elements that would reappear in Whiting's submissions to the Treasury. 
Dobbs copper plate for a calling card. c. 1840-50. Dobbs were responsible for the George IV coronation tickets. The first such combination for the Congreve-Whiting color and embossed printing. See page 4 of Michael Salmon's The Life and Work of Charles Whiting and the Beaufort House Press, 2007. See image above
Ireland 3 shilling Chancery Fund, using a combination of embossed and rose engine lathe engraving in an oval design that includes the crown, background and lion found in other work by Charles Whitting, Huggins E9, E10 and the compound plate printing duty stamps on bank notes.
1840 Post Office 1d 1/2 oz Charles Whiting Essay embossed oval V R 1d. essay (Huggins E10, P.P.C. type G), albino impression, slight thinning otherwise fine. Why were albino embossed essays were included in the Westminster and London Review? A clue might come from Micheal Salmon. He writes It seemed from my researches that Rowland Hill rather thought that the public would prefer to bring their own paper and have it stamped The Wyon head in the ovals produced by the Beaufort Press were intended for this. I think Hill was mostly thinking of companies and those who sent lots of mail bringing, possibly, a ream at a time for stamping and prepayment. This would then have been folded so that the “stamp” was on the outside sealed and addressed or used as a wrapper in the manner of most pre-stamp mail. As we know the public preferred the postage stamp. Whether this preference was partly due to the delay in the production of the die to stamp the customer’s own paper is possible. Whiting seems to have tried to get as much publicity for this product in his disappointment at his products not really being used for postage. Hence the reprints in various journals. He even used some alongside postage stamps on letters he sent. I think he somehow hoped that this would cause the public to request these more attractive items to be adopted in future? 1840 Post Office 1d 1/2 oz Charles Whiting Essay embossed in grey-blue on wove paper. 
Charles Whiting worked extensively for Joseph Gillott's of Bread Street, Birmingham was founded in 1827. The labeling here shows the oval frame work designed and engraved by Alfred Deacon. This was repeatedly used in Whiting's submissions. 
Example of the embossed Prince Consort facing left on a grey-purple background, Charles Whiting Beaufort House; See Lot: 107 Colonel A.S. Bates, December 1934 and Lot: 47 Auction: 13044, Spink. Includes an embossed cameo of the young queen as Henry Corbould represented her without the diadem. This example was used on a letterhead in sent in 1855.
Below is an original mold used for the Congreve's printing-embossing process. Contrasting
colors are printed separately. Before 1840 Charles Whiting produced embossed cameo portraits of the queen and royal family used on needle cases and other advertising. These were submitted for the Treasury Competiton.
A pair of prospectuses sold at the 1992 Cavendish Auctions of the Robert Wallace papers, marked with Charles Whiting's distinctive hand stating "Specimens of cylindrical embossing and printing from Mr. Whitings establisment Beaufort House Strand, from whom cylindrical embossed and printed label shown on the various letters exhibited have also come." The printed form of the letter Whiting submitted to the Treasury competition would have allowed him to produce further copies. The annotation on the prospectus may well refer to the Treasury submissions and two Cavendish sheets would give a very clear idea of the specimens submitted with it writes Micheal Salmon "The life and work of Charles whiting and the Beaufort House press." The prospectuses include embossed images of prince consort used with H. Walkers needles. See Elizabeth M. Harris, "Sir William Congreve and his Compound-Plate Printing," page 79.
S. Graveson writes in the Penny Post Centenary
In the Ninth Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Management of the Post Office Dept. ... specimens of envelopes proposed for franking letters...The designs embodied on these ...came from Beaufort House Press, of which Charles Whiting was the head. The fact that specimens of these envelopes ... had been rejected put Rowland Hill in a difficult position. He could not make use of ... Mr. Whiting's specimen envelopes, or he might be charged with copying. This fact might possibly explain why the design of the Mulready envelope differed so greatly from anything that had previously been suggested or submitted.".
Jan 1840 Charles Whiting and William Wyon Essay inscribed Postage 1D Half OZ in Black. (Chartwell) Damaged. Auction: 12021 - The Chartwell Collection - GB Line-Engraved Essays, Proofs, Stamps and Covers - Part IV; William Wyon: originally part of a piece bearing five strikes in turquoise and seven in black . Jan 1840 Charles Whiting and William Wyon Essay inscribed Postage 1D Half OZ in Black, BPA certified. Jan 1840 Charles Whiting and William Wyon Essay inscribed Postage 1D Half OZ on deep green wove paper. Partially cut to size with heavy horizontal crease and a tone spot. 
Jan 1840 Charles Whiting uncrowned Queen's head, Huggins E7, stamped in black on white wove paper. Some peripheral light thining, fine. 
(green) Charles Whiting Embossed 1840 embossed oval PAID essay (Huggins E8) cut out and laid down.(pink) A second example of the Queen's head from the 1848 Art-Journal reprint. (blue)Charles Whiting Embossed 1840 embossed oval PAID essay, cut-out (Huggins E8) 
Art-Journal June 1 , 1848, including Charles Whiting’s embossed page with four different essays, along with an article Compound Plate Printing by Robert Hunt. Some foxing. images/whiting-uncrowned
(blue)Treasury Competition and Later Essays: Charles Whiting Embossed Essays: 1840 embossed oval essay without inscription (Huggins E15) in deep blue on thick soft card (40 x 41mm), some staining, otherwise fine, rare. 
EP5a QV 1d Pink letter sheet silk thread SPECIMEN LP3 H. G3 1844 Pink letter sheet silk thread 6d purple dated die 5 12 66 cut out overprinted SPECIMEN 1 shilling green embossed overprinted specimen 7 12 55 on part sheet SPECIMEN 
James Bogardus and Francis Coffin, 1839 Treasury Competition, proof reprinted from the original die in deep brown, on glazed paper, very fine. (Grosvenor Philatelic Auctions, Sale 27, Lot 221) Patent office, No. 8208. BOGARDUS, James. Improved means of applying labels, stamps, or marks to letters and other such documents. Bogardus patented his Treasury competition submittion. 
1857 cheque with as design element similar to that submitted in 1839 by B.B.Hennington. 1849 cheque with as design element similar to that submitted in 1839 by B.B.Hennington 
A printed example of a compound plate printed George IV five pence banknote. Charles Whiting suggested adapting this banknote for a preprinted postpaid envelope called a go-free. (Muir, pg 29) A little dirty as expected of a banknote this age. See above image
Treasury Competition and Later Essay: Charles Whiting Congreve Method Essays: 1d. essay (P.P.C. number 12) printed in black and red. These essays are typically available as reprints on thick wove paper often cut from the Westminster and London Review, March 1840. This example is not a reprint. On thinner paper similar to examples that appeared on the double sheet 8x10 folded stationary along with the 1839 Mercantile Committee printed tract headed the fears of the paper makers and stationers about collecting postage by means of stamps allayed, which goes on to succinctly quote Sir Rowland Hill's plans for These labels, talking about prevention of forgery, convenience of use including using multiple to send heavier letters, concerns over the labels dropping off, Post Office protocol for canceling the stamp to prevent re-use, how many to be printed in a sheet and concluding with the advantages of stamps over cash payments incl. using them to pay small debts. One of these can be viewed in the Phillips Collection, Volume I: 1839 Treasury Competition essay submitted by Charles Whiting, endorsed by Rowland Hill Note in Rowland Hill's handwriting. Eight sheets of Posy Paper made out of the sheet of common paper from the size sent from the Paper Mill - all of which, as well as the stamping would be performed by the cylindrical mode of printing and cutting - the sheet of eight is folded in the manner the others should be when sent to Post. See lot 1 Auction: 12012 - The Chartwell Collection.
John Dickinson 1837 London District Post Envelope essay, One Penny design in yellow-buff on silk thread paper, a fine example of this attractive design. This was included as evidence in the 21 June, 1838 presentation by Whiting.John Dickinson 1837 London District Post Letter-sheet essay, two penny design in green on silk thread paper, a yellowed on the edge, slight folds, fine. This was included as evidence in the 21 June, 1838 presentation by Whiting 
1838-39 Mercantile Committee, Charles Whiting POST OFFICE PERMIT proof of the essay in black on stout wove paper, very fine. See Lot 12, Chartwell sale June 14, 2012. 
Harwoods envelopes sheet, a Treasury Competition entry number 29, in brown. The bottom edge cut and carefully rejoined. Details of the Harwood's Envelope page 260 in The Postage and Telegraph Stamps of Great Britain by Frederick Adolphus Philbrick, William Amos Scarborough Westoby. 
James Chalmers 1838 a later reprinted essay of the 1p gummed paper.Mr. John Francis of the Athenaeum, on the plan of sir Rowland Hill. by Patrick Chalmers, 1889.
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