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Auction: 18043 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1580

Great Britain
Postal History
1839 (5 Dec.) entire letter from Dublin to Drogheda, the address panel showing a good to fine strike of the black Dublin handstruck "4", the reverse showing a clear red Dublin despatch datestamp of 5 December (which opens well for display) being the first day of use for the Uniform Fourpenny rate; light fold crosses strikes but hardly detracts. A major Irish postal history rarity. Photo

provenance:
Spink sale, June 2001

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Sold for
£2,100