This is a fantastic piece of transport history!
Its date, to be filled in by the person completing the form, begins 182...
It seems to be a legal form for someone to say officially before a JP that they had witnessed someone losing control of his horses while driving in a particular type of carriage on a public road
Paper, 12.5 x 8", 2 pages with (the same) text, in crumpled condition - the second one is very grubby, or I would have separated it - but what a great reflection on life in the 1820s!
Please click on the scans to 'supersize' them and see the details of the images, as these form the major part of the description
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I will happily combine shipping
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Payment
I always get a Proof of Posting certificate, and if an item does get lost in the post I will forward it to you for you to make a claim, since as the Buyer you can claim the full amount of your loss
However, in over 20,000 parcels I've mailed out over the last fifteen years only about a dozen have gone astray, and most of these were overseas
If you're at all worried about losing something, do ask for Recorded Delivery - £1.30 extra in the UK and £7 for overseas
Shipping
Airmail takes between three and five days. The Post Office warns that Surface mail to the USA, Australia, etc, can take as long as 12 weeks, but it is, obviously, a lot cheaper
In practice, American buyers tell me that Surface mail usually takes between 14 and 21 days (and apparently it actually travels by air, filling any space after the official Airmail items are loaded)