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Auction: 16027 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1805

Great Britain
Mulready Caricatures and other Illustrated Envelopes
1842 (31 May) R.W. Hume Envelope number 75 "the queen's own" exceptionally fine used from Edinburgh and bearing 1841-53 1d. red-brown, Plate 19, TH with good to large margins all round, addressed to "The Hon Lady Dunfermline, Follington House." This envelope depicts Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort with infant in arms on the front (the adhesive covers the Royal Coat of Arms) and has the national anthem printed on the inside and a Crown printed on each of the flaps. A superb envelope of great rarity. One of only two known examples and probably the finest and most desirable of all the Pictorial envelopes. This example is not recorded in "British Pictorial Envelopes of the 19th. Century" by Bodily, Jarvis and Hahn. B.P.A. Certificate (1996). Photo

provenance:
Lou Manzi, May 1997, realised £12,000 excluding buyers commission.

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Sold for
£11,000