1875: Stationery postal card ½ penny brown, uprated with Line-Engraved 1874 ½ penny rose, plate 11, fine colour and perforations, tied by barred duplex “029 WEST HARTLEPOOL 28 JA 78”, sent to Budapest, Hungary, with “LONDON 30 JA 78” cds and instructional boxed rectangular “NOT TRANSMISSIBLE / ABROAD”, both in red, alongside. Faint diagonal crease top left and minor soiling. Very rare survivor of a post card not forwarded abroad as per GPU rules. Normally destroyed by the British Post Office.
