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Auction: 18043 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1560

Great Britain
Postal History
1786 (15 Nov.) Peter Williamson's Unofficial Edinburgh Penny Post, entire letter to "David Balfour Writer of the Signet Hannover Street", on reverse cracked red wax seal, "N 15" (15 Nov.) and "paid" 22x8mm., both superb. A smaller "paid" handstamp (Auckland 454b) was used up to September 1786. The item offered here is believed to be the only recorded example. Clean vertical creases; fine and a highly important Scottish rarity. Photo

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£3,000