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Auction: 16010 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1054

Great Britain
Postal History
The Inventor of the Postage Stamp. The Great Debate Between the Sons of Rowland Hill and James Chalmers
1880 (27 Nov.). Hill's terse single page reply on paper with embossed "50 Belsize Park N.W.", "Dear Sir (adhesive Postage Stamps) My answer to your letter of 24th. instant, must be to refer you to mine of the 4th. and 13th. December last. Sir Rowland Hill's claims on which they are made are now before the world, and until you can prove that someone has a prior claim I must decline to go into minor points"; fine. Photo

literature:
Illustrated on page 30 of "Chalmers versus Hill" by Anthony Wicks

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