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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: 21

The Dr. Paul Ramsay Collection of Hand Painted Envelopes
1873-75 three envelopes and two fronts to County Cork, each franked 1d. and with superb pen and ink drawings of a political nature, including Disraeli (as an Elephant) defeating Gladstone, Gladstone's public health act, Britain and Russia (as a bear), Permissions bill of 1873, Disraeli's repeal of Gladstone's criminal law amendment act. A fine group. Probably the most famous group of hand illustrated envelopes in existence. Photo

literature:
Four illustrated in "British Pictorial Envelopes of the 19th Century" (pages 170-173)

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Sold for
£6,500