Ball Number: 20 B (variant)
Not in Ball
22.5mm x 22.5mm
black on cream/white
1860-1863
Douglas Ball's
20 B ticket description* fairly describes the Burn
ticket above, except for paper color:
"BOUND BY / BURN, LONDON.
/
(enclosed in ring
between single rules), / POSTAGE / 4D. / (within central circle),
lozenge triple-rule frame with corners decorated, 23 x 23 mm; red on
cream; 1860-1861." The ticket illustrated above is a color
variant: black on
cream/white. This ticket is found in the books
listed
below, although not all copies of these books may contain this ticket,
or
any ticket at all. Based on the publication dates in
the titles listed below,
the enddate of use for this ticket (according to Ball) is extended by
two
years to 1863.
* Douglas Ball. Victorian Publishers' Bindings (Williamsburg, Virginia: The Book Press, 1985), p. 173.
* Douglas Ball. Victorian Publishers' Bindings (Williamsburg, Virginia: The Book Press, 1985), p. 173.