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Auction: 16027 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1788

(x) Great Britain
1840 Parliamentary Envelopes
House of Lords
1840 (6 Apr.) 1d. envelope printed in vermilion on cream wove paper (122x83mm.) with "(Temporary)" at top, signed "Hardwicke" and addressed to a member of his family at their estate, Wimpole, Arrington (Cambridgeshire); bearing a fair strike of the Crowned "paid" d.s. in red. The reverse with red wax seal bearing the lord's crest. There is a brown stain in the centre of the address caused by the wax seal, otherwise exceptionally fresh and fine. Similar to setting 2C but with subtle variations in the positions of the type. Twenty one covers recorded on cream paper. Specialised PE6, £25,000. Photo

Admiral Charles Philip Yorke, 4th. Earl of Hardwicke (1799-1873). Hardwicke represented Reigate in the House of Commons between 1831 and 1832 and Cambridgeshire between 1832 and 1834. In 1834, on the death of his uncle, he became the fourth Earl of Hardwicke, and inherited the substantial Wimpole estate in Cambridgeshire. He was a member of Lord Derby's cabinet in 1852 as Postmaster General and as Lord Privy Seal between 1858 and 1859. In 1852 he was sworn of the Privy Council

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Estimate
£3,000 to £3,500