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Auction: 12013 - The Collector's Series sale
Lot: 2034

Great Britain Postal History 1680-82 Dockwra´s Original Penny Post 1680 (27 March) Newspaper "Smith´s Current Intelligence" giving details of the start of the new Dockwra/Murray/Chamberlen London Local Penny Post, "On Saturday last the Projectors for Conveying Letters to any part of the City, or Suburbs, for a peny the Letter, opened their offices, whereof the three chiefest are in Lime-street, about Charing-Cross, and Temple-bar: besides several inferior Offices; at which they have hung out tables to advertise people of the thing: but the Porters (not without good reason) supposing that it will be a great diminution, if not the absolute ruin of their imployment, have shewed their resentment thereof taking down, and tearing the said tables wheresoever they meet with them."; believed to be the first record giving the starting date of the Dockwra Post as 20 March 1680 and revealing the opposition to it; fine. Photo Estimate £ 600-800

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