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Auction: 6021 - Great Britain Stamps & Covers
Lot: 338

Great Britain Caricatures, Printed and Hand-Illustrated Envelopes 1841 Sothgate caricature number 1 "Pickpocket", used from Cirencester to Edinburgh dated 31 December 1841, bearing 1841 1d. plate 17, TG, margins at places, tied by superb upright stroke of the black Maltese Cross; the envelope with minor corner damage at lower-right though barely detracting from the fine appearance of this very rare usage. R.P.S. Certificate (2003). Photo Estimate £ 1,500-1,800provenance: Yates, 1949 Meroni, 1952

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£1,500