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Auction: 21045 - The Alan Holyoake Grand Prix Collection of British and International Registered Mail
Lot: 227

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Mail To the United Kingdom
1859 (29 Aug.) buff envelope to Cornwall bearing 1859 12½c. deep yellow-green (2) tied by circular "50" with neat Windsor despatch c.d.s. at left, straight-line "registered" in black and with Paid Liverpool Col. Packet, standard-type London registred dated oval with a distinctive Liverpool crown/"registered" in red and faint Wadebridge arrival c.d.s. (8.9) plus a London transit c.d.s. on the reverse. Some trivial soiling around edges, a very good franking S.G. 39

provenance:
Daniel Cantor, September 2011


Carried on the Allan Line 'North American'. Pays 12½c. postage plus 12½c. registration (effective 1 April 1859)

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

Sold for
£2,100

Starting price
£1300