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of Commemoration,
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letters,
MISCALLANEOUS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
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of
etc.
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COVERS/CARDS.
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Bearer Pass
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notification,
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Wood,
in 1905, and Sir Charles Slingsby and the Newby Hall ferry disaster in 1869.
James ' Palace and a purple bordered Windsor Castle Bearer attendance card.
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and
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display
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include Earl
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documents
relating to major personalities re Lying in State, Funeral notices, Admission
the Funeral Procession, a purple-edged "Lying
the
London 1885, Benjamin Disraeli, William Gladstone
These include the Duke of Wellington, Viscount Palmerston, George
The
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of
of
use of
When a
mourning.
growth of
member of
as harbingers of
the use of
The official period of
a black
Mourning covers were a visible part of
briefly displayed.
DECEMBER 2016
death and messengers of
grief
tradition has a black border as a mark of
border on the edges of
BEREAVEMENT BLACK BORDERS
A SUMMARY OF A STATIC DISPLAY AT
Government Departments when a sovereign dies.
respect.
THE ROYAL PHILATELIC SOCIETY LONDON
and sympathy.
mourning is six months into the new reign.
Black edged stationery envelopes and letter headings are used by
less coming to an end in the 1930s, though some are still used today.
death or funeral
The first posted mourning cover was recorded in Luxembourg in 1767.
The stationery used by the Royal Household and family, by
notices, on memorial and burial cards to honour the dead, and also the
Mourning covers are defined as black-edged letters, cards or envelopes,
the culture and social behaviour
the Royal Family dies, there is a six-month period of
people particularly in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. The gradual
used in many countries particularly in the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries,
black edges stationery for letters to and from those in mourning, is
In Britain it reached its peak in the late 1800s to early/mid 1900s, more or