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Auction: 14022 - Specialised Great Britain Stamps and Postal history
Lot: 149

Great Britain
Mulready Caricatures and other Printed Envelopes
K. Pearsall's contemporary hand-drawn reproduction of the One Penny lettersheet on thick wove paper, without any attempt at caricature; trivial edgewear, fine and believed to be unique. A remarkable piece. Photo

Literature: Described and illustrated on pages 193-194 of "British Pictorial Envelopes of the Nineteenth Century" by Bodily, Jarvis and Hahn
provenance:
E.E. Yates, February 1949
Charles Hahn
Louis Grunin, April 2010

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Sold for
£700