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  • Lot# : 1584 Great Britain

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    Mulready Caricatures 1840: R.W.Hume 'Britannia Seated on an Egg' caricature envelope, State 3 with number '1' on flap, with additional inscription and advertisement for Lawrie & Knight on inside, used to Ryde, Isle of Wight and franked by 1840 1 d. black, plate 4, lettered JC, touched at left and with large margins on three sides, tied by neat Maltese Cross in red. Flap at left with London despatch cds (25 July 1840) in red. Illustrated in Jarvis, Bodily & Hahn on page 87. Typical small imperfections but extraordinarily rare.rnrnProvenance: Collection Charles Nissen Stock, Stanley Gibbons, London, 30 March 1978, lot 91rn                   Collection Ritchie Bodily, Phillips, London, 14 March 1991, lot 20.rn                   Collection 'Illustrious', RL, London, 3 March 1992, lot 22.
    Starting bid : 7,500 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold