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Auction: 25017 - Stamps and Covers of Great Britain
Lot: 5123

Great Britain
1840 Mulready
Caricatures
1840 (15 Oct.) "Fores's Racing Envelope No.5", hand coloured and addressed to Shiplake, New Henley, endorsed "Pre-Paid" in one hand, and "Not Paid" in a separate hand, charged "1" and with "henley-on-thames" 15.10 double arch d.s. Some reinforced tears and creases though remaining a highly attractive and rare envelope, there being very few used examples known, this the earliest known date and the only hand coloured example recorded. Photo.

literature:
Illustrated in Bodily, Jarvis and Hahn "British Pictorial Envelopes of the 19th Century", Pg. 117

provenance:
Grunin, Spink, May 2004, Lot 519
Wally Knox
Shaida

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Estimate
£1,500 to £2,000