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Auction: 21045 - The Alan Holyoake Grand Prix Collection of British and International Registered Mail
Lot: 26

(x) Great Britain
Registration Paid in Cash
1/- Registration Rate
1840 Mulready Covers
1842 (14 Apr.) 2d. wrapper, a103, to London marked with large letters "Registered Letter" and "2/-" plus manuscript "5" in the top corner, cancelled by a rather oily black Maltese Cross with Newcastle on Tyne despatch c.d.s. and London Paid tombstone arrival (15.4), there is a further despatch c.d.s. on the reverse. Light soiling with a couple of horizontal filing creases and part of the address has been bleached out. Karl-Albert Louis Certificate (2000)


Also 1842 (24 July) a similar 2d. wrapper, a97, from the same correspondence, marked "Prepaid Registered Letter July 24 1842" and "Registered" with "1/-" rate mark, numbered "24" in the top corner fine Newcastle on Type despatch and London Paid tombstone (26.7); the top flap has been removed and other flaps reduced, part of the address also bleached out. B.P.A. Certificate (2010). A rare and desirable pair of wrappers. (2)

provenance:
14 April
Yates, February 1949


Basil Stranck, March 1955

Martin Willcocks, June 1999


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

Estimate
£3,000 to £5,000

Starting price
£2400