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Auction: 16027 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1786

(x) Great Britain
1840 Parliamentary Envelopes
Houses of Parliament
1840 (17 Jan.) 1d. envelope in black without line under inscription, setting 1, addressed to Manchester and signed "C.P.Villiers" and bearing a good strike of the Crowned "paid" despatch c.d.s. in red. The reverse with a complete red wax seal "house of commons"; a small fragment of the flap missing. Fresh and fine. A rare and highly desirable example of this cover, used on the second day of issue. Only ten covers recorded. Specialised PE1, £22,000. Photo

Charles Pelham Villiers (1802 -98) was a British lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1835 to 1898, making him the longest-serving Member of Parliament. Pelham Villiers also holds the distinction of being the oldest candidate to win a parliamentary seat, at the age of 93

literature: The 1840 Prepaid Parliamentary Envelopes, by Huggins and Klempka, 2013. Illustration 11

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