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Auction: 15023 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 2047

(x) British Parliamentary Mail
Official Paid
1865 (20 Feb.) stampless envelope to Bordeaux bearing a fine strike of "official-paid/london" code "F A" c.d.s. in red. "PD" in oval alongside and signed at foot "H.A.Bruce", the reverse with French transit and arrival c.d.s. and the impressed seal of Council Office. Fine. Photo

Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare (1815-1895) was a British Liberal Party politician, who served in government most notably as Home Secretary (1868–1873) and as Lord President of the Council. When this letter was sent he was Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department.

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Estimate
£100 to £120