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Auction: 11018 - Spring Collector's Series
Lot: 1039

Great Britain Postal History 1840 (7 Oct.) entire with contents from Pomeroy (Ireland) addressed to Viscount Palmerston, Foreign Office, London, with fine unrecorded handstruck "4" of Pomeroy and contents from the Postmaster of Pomeroy, fine and an important new discovery. Photo Estimate £ 1,200-1,500 Note: At the time of writing Viscount Palmerston was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, he was later to serve two terms as Prime Minister (1855-58 and 1859-65)

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