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Auction: 21012 - Stamps & Covers of Great Britain, including the Windsor Collection - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 2125

Great Britain
1840 One Penny Black
Plate Ib
QK good to large margins all round, tied by watery red Maltese Cross to miniature envelope (with enclosure "... She bids me tell you that she is quite jealous of our correspondence and thinks it highly improper in a yound lady corresponding with an old married man ... I do not know if you will receive this or not as it is so very small but it is all the fashion...") from Newcastle on Tyne to Jedburgh dated 25 July 1840, small faults but an excessively rare use of a Penny Black on a miniature envelope. As well as the enclosure, there is a photograph of the writer

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Estimate
£1,200 to £1,400

Starting price
£850