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Auction: 12013 - The Collector's Series sale
Lot: 2033

Great Britain Postal History 1680-82 Dockwra´s Original Penny Post 1680 (Munday (sic), 22 March) Newspaper "Mercurius Civicus", issue number 1, including the earliest recorded notice relating to the new Dockwra/Murray/Chamberlen Local London Penny Post "We are informed some ingenious persons and good Citizens, for the benefit of the City and Suburbs in point of Charge and quick conveyance of Notes and Letters, have projected a method for doing the same throughout for 1d. a Letter one with another, further or nearer, which may be termed a Foot-post, whereof our next may give you a more particular account"; fine and extremely rare. Photo Estimate £ 600-800

Sold for
£750