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Auction: 20026 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 1818

Great Britain
Postal History
1760 (19 Oct.) entire letter For Mr. Collingwood In the Hospitall (sic) For Exposed and Deserted Young Children in Lambs Conduit Fields London, endorsed on side panels Lloyd (the receiver) and Please deliver the Parcel to the Bearer, with good to very fine Temple, type 3, Dockwra for Monday and with reversed "n" on "peny". The letter references The Greyhound Inn, the Borough Southwark; filing folds and some minor splits along the folds, fine and very rare. Photo

literature:
"London Signs" by Bryant and Lillywhite (1972), p. 252 "Greyhound inn Southwalk 1483; Greyhound inn West side of the Borough 1637-1781, taken down for the opening of Union Street"

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Estimate
£300 to £350

Starting price
£240