The History of the Postmarks of the British Isles from 1840 to 1876 - John Hendy (1909)

38 THE POSTMARKS OF THE BRITISH ISLES FROM ISlfl.
Various other marks are to be found on newspapers when addressed abroad (Figs.
194-199).
Fig. 194,
INSUFFICIENTLY
STAMPED
Used in red on Newspapers for Abroad
Insufficiently Stamped.
Fig. 196. Used in black on Newspapers for
places Abroad on which Postage is not
Prepaid.
Fig. 195. Used in red on. Newspapers for
Abroad on which Postage cannot be
wholly Prepaid (signifies "Part Paid").
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Fig. 197. Used in red on wholly Prepaid
Newspapers for Belgium.
Figs. 19S, 199.
Used in red on wholly Prepaid Newspapers
for Belgium and France respectively.
The aboHtion of the impressed stamp on newspapers was the means of saving considerable
time and labour ; the newspapers previously had to be separated, so that the
stamps on those bearing postage labels could be obliterated. It was estimated that in
the year 1871
103,000,000 newspapers passed through the post.
Fig. 200.
In August, 1876, an arrangement was made with the firm of W. H. Smith and Son
by which the postal authorities granted them the use of a special obliteration stamp
(Fig. 200) to cancel at their own offices the wrappers of the newspapers which were sent
direct to Euston Station for transmission by the early day mails on the London and
North-Western Railway.