DNA from Victorian stamps and envelopes

[Milliepede]

Or saved it till next Christmas 

[Gadget]

I seem to recall that the flap was just tucked in in the olden days when I was young.  Wasn't there a differential postage rate?

[ShaunJ]

I seem to recall that the flap was just tucked in in the olden days when I was young.  Wasn't there a differential postage rate?

As I recall it was 2¹/₂d to send a card in an unsealed envelope, and 3d to send a sealed letter.

[Mart 'n' Al]

I'm too young to remember the olden days.  I recall my dad's friend in the late 1960s used to send a Hartlepool football paper to us, with just a band of brown paper 4" wide around it, to qualify for a low rate.  My dad's friend used to secrete a hand-written letter inside to get a special rate.  Wow, I haven't thought about that for 50 years.

Martin

[Gadget]

I seem to recall that the flap was just tucked in in the olden days when I was young.  Wasn't there a differential postage rate?

As I recall it was 2¹/₂d to send a card in an unsealed envelope, and 3d to send a sealed letter.

So we'd only be able to collect DNA from the posh or wealthy 

[Guy Etchells]

I seem to recall that the flap was just tucked in in the olden days when I was young.  Wasn't there a differential postage rate?

As I recall it was 2¹/₂d to send a card in an unsealed envelope, and 3d to send a sealed letter.

So we'd only be able to collect DNA from the posh or wealthy 

No poor folk licked the stamps on most cards and letters they sent.
Cheers
Guy

[Gadget]

We didn't and we were poor.

I really think the whole idea is a wee bit OTT.


Added - I do have an original marriage cert from 1873 with signatures, etc. It was in the family bible.

[Wendy2305]

American author Patricia Cornwell claims to have done this to identify Jack the Ripper from a stamp from one of the ripper letters She funded a private investigation to identify Jack and published a book on her idea that he was artist Walter Sickert
Unfortunately the test could only be Mitochondrial

[Gadget]

Many historians discount claims that Sickert is a suspect in the Jack the Ripper Murders. But like so many of the theories that surround the unsolved mystery, believers of a particular theory will go to any length to prove that they are the ones who have finally cracked the case.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/walter-sickert