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Auction: 16034 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 2933

Great Britain
Postal History
1640 (22 Oct.) Treaty of Ripon. Entire folio letter from Nicholas Payne to Captain Collins at Dover, addressed "To the Wor. and very good friend Increased Collins: at one of his Majesties forts at Dover: these present I pray". Superb and practically complete cracked red wax seal "N.P." (Nicholas Payne): A compelling letter, concerning the Bishops war and the ensuing phony peace, before the Civil War proper broke out. A lively and detailed account, affording one that first-person feeling of what it might have been like to be alive at the time. A transcript of the contents included. Photo

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