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Auction: 18043 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1571

Great Britain
Postal History
1824 (20 Jan.) entire letter from London to Dublin, endorsed "Private", showing a superb strike of the large red Crowned circular "improperly put under cover to evade postage/to be/charged", black Dublin arrival timestamp on reverse; vertical filing fold crosses the strike which barely detracts. This is one of the rarest Irish marks, there being only two known examples. Photo

provenance:
Spink sale, June 2001

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Sold for
£700