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Auction: 18043 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1703

Great Britain
1841-53 One Penny Red-Brown
"Black" Plates
Plate 11: PE large margins, tied by black London broken points Maltese Cross cancellation to envelope dated 8 Jan. 1842 from Mary Ann Watts to Caroline Southey (1786-1854, poetess and wife of Robert Southey), with a substantial nine page enclosure on note paper with a delightful engraving of a dog, and interesting contents including her "blind devotion to Mr. Wordsworth". The envelope stained which partly affects the adhesive


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Sold for
£220