Auction 333-341 Western Australia & Great Britain - Day 3

1879: 1 d. brown, postal stationery card, used London to Zierikzee, Holland, dated 30 January 1891, cancelled by the rare and distinctive London EC 'Malin' Experimental Machine cancellation in black, with arrival cds also in black alongside. Faint corner crease lower left and minor damage along that side, otherwise fine (H&B CP10). An excellent example of this rarely seen postmark, which was used intermittently during a six month period in 1890-91. One of four known examples.
Note: Little has been discovered in the British Postal Archives regarding the 'Malin' machine trial, or the machine itself, other than the machine was rejected since it could only postmark a maximum of 100 items of mail in a minute. The machine appears to have been used only for postmarking out-bound mail to foreign destinations.