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Auction: 19045 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 483

Gibraltar
Early Letters
1762 (21 June) and (10 Oct.) entire letters from the same correspondence to Brechin, both carried by private ship to Aberdeen, rated "6" and "2", the former with "10/au" Bishopmark on reverse, the latter with small straight-line "aberdeen" in red. A fine pair of covers

Note: Towards the end of the Seven Years war Britain had declared war on Spain. This led to a threat of siege in Gibraltar and the expelling of British citizens from neighbouring parts of Spain. The writer of both letters, John Chalmers, was one such citizen.

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Sold for
£220

Starting price
£140