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Auction: 1027 - Autumn Collector's Series
Lot: 28

† Great Britain Postal History Newspapers The Times 1840 (20 Oct.) with a letter addressed to the editor on page 6 reading "Sir, - Can you, through the medium of your journal, inform me whether it is a rule in country towns to close the business of the banks at 4 o´clock p.m.; and also whether the sale of receipt and postage stamps is limited to the hours of 10 a.m. and 4p.m.? you will further oblige by stating whether a stamp agent cannot be compelled to sell a single postage stamp, as i have known two or three instances where it has been denied, and the buyers informed that they cannot purchase less than one shillings worth"; generally fine Estimate £ 100-120

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