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Auction: 15023 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 3673

Great Britain
1840 Mulready
One Penny Envelopes
A174, dated 9 May 1840 (fourth official day of use), addressed to Paris and returned to Glasgow, most unusually without Maltese Cross cancellation but with central red "p.d." in oval cancelling Britannia instead, red boxed "glasgow/paid/9 my/1840", London Tombstone (11.5) and Calais (13.5) d.s. in red on the front, black boxed "glasgow/my 19 1840/3-pm" and other datestamps on reverse; pressed horizontal crease at top and a trifle soiled (mostly on the reverse) but fine and a significant rarity. The only recorded Mulready returned from abroad for which the correct postage had been paid, and the third earliest recorded Mulready addressed overseas. B.P.A. Certificate (1996). Photo

provenance:
"Yates", February 1949
"Daisy", October 1996
literature
Recorded in "May Dates" by Mike Jackson

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