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Auction: 4003 - Stamps & Covers of the World featuring Italy and Italian States
Lot: 724

Great Britain 1677 (28 Feb.) entire letter addressed to "Sir William Carr and the Rest of the Commisioners for the Borders of the Kingdom of Scotland", fascinating content, being a petition with eight signatories, appealing against the severe sentence of banishment for life passed on a man named as Christopher Jameson, the letter having been sent from Morpeth gaol; traces of soiling and light folds though in no way detracting Estimate £ 100-120

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