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Auction: 21045 - The Alan Holyoake Grand Prix Collection of British and International Registered Mail
Lot: 15

(x) Great Britain
Registration Paid in Cash
1/- Registration Rate
1840 Penny Black Covers
1841 (30 Jan.) entire letter to a bookseller in Oxford bearing 1d. Black plate 8, HK (dark colour, small to large margins all round) tied by a watery strike of pale red Maltese Cross, the front marked "No 198 Registered Letter" with a small "1/-" rate mark, the reverse bearing the Liverpool despatch c.d.s. The letter with some age wear at edges but this does not affect the outside. B.P.A. Certificate (2011) which notes that the adhesive has been lifted and treated to reduce staining


A rare Penny Black registered cover and the second earliest recorded`

provenance:
Martin Willcocks, June 1999

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Estimate
£8,000 to £12,000

Starting price
£6500