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Auction: 13011 - The Collector's Series sale
Lot: 2779

Great Britain
Postal History
Newspapers
"The Times" 13 May, 1839, including a short notice on page 4, "Mr. Rowland Hill´s plan of a penny postage has been partly tried as an experiment in Gloucestershire. The postage from Stroud to Nailsworth...."; "The Times" 24 May, 1839, with a long article on page 3, "The Select Committee on Postage"; "The Times" 18 July 1839, with a letter from John Dickinson on page 6, "Reduction of Postage - Remarks on the mode of carrying into effect the reduction of postage"; and "The Times" 6 September 1839, two papers, with an article on page 2 headed "Postage" being minutes of the Board of Treasury carrying into effect the Act for establishing a reduced and uniform Rate....". Fine condition (4)

Sold for
£290