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Auction: 12013 - The Collector's Series sale
Lot: 2115

Great Britain Postal History Valentines 1878 Joseph Hansell´s pictorial Valentine, the envelope with a country scene and a church by night, lithographed in sepia, the enclosure a multi-folding novelty Valentine depicting the man in the moon in his four phases, when each face is lifted, a different phase in the transition from loving devotion to marital strife is revealed; franked 1d. with Chester duplex cancellation of Feb. 14; fine and believed to be the only recorded example. Outstanding Estimate £ 1,000-1,200

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£650