Wanted - Telegrams

[Alasdair alias albert]

Hello All

I am an ex hunting's man and now involved with the Science Museum in London.

The Museum is comissioning a new gallery on the theme of 'Modern Communications' and seeks original telegrams ie the paper messages on any subject.

If you have a Telegram and are willing to share it with or donate it to the Museum please get in touch.

The name is Beal known in Hunting,s as Albert and then later in Buries Markes.

Regards and thanks

Alasdair

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[Doc Vernon]

Sent an Email but dont know if it will assist!
Cheers

[j.sabourn]

Thinking back they were called SLT's on ships. Think it stood for Ships letter Telegram. There are sparkies on this site so they will know. Was never cheap to send. Was a story went around that the sparkies also got a commission on this, maybe one of them will confirm/deny this. Cheers John Sabourn

[Jim Brady]

Remember there were two different envelopes,one was I think called a greetings telegram which had the same colours of an airmail envelope round the edges,if you got one of those you knew not to panic.The other one was like a dirty yellow colour which invariably was the carrier of bad news.I remember when I was pantry boy on the Oregis,we were tied up in Port Talbot, the telegram boy came aboard with a telegram for me,it was in the yellow envelope,it knocked me for six everything going through my mind I had to go into the toilet and lock the door to open it.It was from my mother wishing me a merry christmas and a happy new year.That should've been in a greetings envelope.
Regards.
Jim.B.

I may still have that I must have a look and send it off.