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Auction: 1027 - Autumn Collector's Series
Lot: 26

† Great Britain Postal History Newspapers The Morning Herald dated 1840 (1 Oct.) with an article on page 3 reading "Postage Stamps. - A.M. Skerne., of Durham, having written to Colonel Maberly, suggesting that the postage stamps should be used as seals, received the following reply: - "General Post-office, Sept. 20, 1840. - Sir, - In answer to your letter of the 20th inst. I beg to inform you, that, if the postage stamps are placed on the backs of the letters, as you propose, it is impossible to prevent their being charged with postage, in the haste and pressure under which all the business of the Post-office must be discharged. James Campbell for the secretary"; fine Estimate £ 100-120

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