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Auction: 15023 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 3634

Great Britain
Postal History
1660 (25 April) "An Act for erecting and eftablifhing a Poft-Office", eighteen page printed Act of Parliament. By this measure the British postal system was created, this act not only established the existence of a postal service, but also laid down the rates of postage - the most important measure in the postal service until the introduction of the Penny Post in 1840; fine and very fresh. A major new discovery. A variation exists in the British Library. Photo

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Sold for
£2,200