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Auction: 19045 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1173

Great Britain
Postal History
Coaching
1689 (2-5 Sept.) "The London Gazette" with reports of two mail robberies, the first by three men on horseback, who led the paquet horse by the bridle and the Post Boy, out of the highway to an adjacent by-lane where they stole "The Scotch Mail" and "My Lord Newill's black box", the second robbery involved three people, who "set upon the Chester mail about a mile beyond Highgate taking the Paquet-Horse and Paquet into an adjacent wood......." and much more, concluding with "whoever gives notice of the said robbers to the General Letter Office at London shall be very well rewarded". Fine for its age and rare

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£140

Starting price
£140