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Auction: 12001 - Winter Collector's Series
Lot: 532

Great Britain Mulready Caricatures and other Illustrated Envelopes 1876 (19 July) beautifully hand illustrated envelope, with a letter from the artist, by Arthur Fredericks, depicting seven pixies or goblins or elves at work and play within a strawberry plant, franked 1d. Plate 162, IA, with London "W/25" duplex cancellation, the envelope with two insignificant tears at foot. A magical envelope. Photo Estimate £ 2,000-2,500 Note: Arthur Fredricks was an illustrator who worked chiefly for Harper´s magazine. He illustrated "Three men in a boat" by Jerome K. Jerome in 1889, and was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists where he exhibitied in 1877. provenance: Robson Lowe sale, September 1987

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