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Auction: 20139 - Stamps of Great Britain and the British Commonwealth
Lot: 306

Great Britain
1840 One Penny Black
Plate IV
AJ in a deep shade, small to large margins and tied by a bright, opaque strike of red Maltese Cross on entire letter to John Curtis, the noted Victorian entomologist, with 1840 (9 Sept.) despatch c.d.s. alongside and with London arrival backstamps (10.9). An attractive and charming letter with historical significance

The letter opens, “I hope you will not think me distracted because I send you two new species of caterpillars”

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