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Auction: 18034 - The Dr Paul Ramsay Collection of Hand Painted Envelopes offered on behalf of the Royal Philatelic Society London
Lot: 10

The Dr. Paul Ramsay Collection of Hand Painted Envelopes
The Reverend L. Lorraine Smith Hunting Envelopes
1842 (10 July) handpainted Hunting scene "Going! Going! Gone for 1 Penny", bearing 1841-53 1d. tied by a black Maltese Cross cancellation, from the Reverend L. Lorraine Smith to London, on reverse Stoney Stratford datestamp and blue "stony/l l s/stratford" (with reversed "n"); minor filing folds and seal removed from the reverse; fine and believed to be the earliest recorded hand coloured envelope. A famous cover. Photo

provenance:
Maximus, February 1970
Alcock
Literature:
Described in "British Pictorial Envelopes of the 19th Century", page 248

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Sold for
£2,500