INTRODUCTION

I have had a busy day imaging auction items at James and Sons, but before going to work I did find time to…

VOTE

The only election in which us Norfolk folk had a vote today was for Police and Crime Commissioner, and to put it mildly I was not 100% convinced that this was an election worth voting in. However, in my inbox this morning was an email from the Grteen Party candidate, and that settled the issue – I would vote. The polling station was not a hive of activity (indeed to judge from the reaction to my arrival I may well have been the first voter the folks running that polling station had seen that day). This election used a preference system – one vote for your favourite candidate and one for your second favourite. With three of the candidates being respectively Tory, UKIP and a highly suspect Independent, and a fourth standing for what is effectively an ex-party, I used my votes for the Green party candidate (1st) and Labour (2nd):

IMAGING

Today’s imaging consisted of two distinct parts, first a collection of police helmets and such, and second starting work on some postal history items. I will start with the…

POLICE HEADGEAR

These feature a wide range of police organisations.

POSTAL HISTORY

Most of the postal history stuff was not so interesting in appearance, although there were a few hihglights…

This cruciform pattern was the most distinctive of all the postmarks I saw today.

With so much of interest lot 371 merited a five image gallery