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Auction: 21045 - The Alan Holyoake Grand Prix Collection of British and International Registered Mail
Lot: 16

(x) Great Britain
Registration Paid in Cash
1/- Registration Rate
1840 Penny Black Covers
!841 (3 Feb.) wrapper to Bakewell bearing 1d. Black plate 9, AH-AI horizontal pair (deep shade, small to large margins, just cut into foot of AH) tied by watery strikes of dull red Maltese Cross and marked "registered letter No.247" and rate mark "1/-" for registration, the reverse with an oily strike of Liverpool despatch c.d.s. There is a vertical folding crease which runs through AH. Copy of B.P.A. Certificate (2003).


An important and early registered letter and the only known multiple of the Penny Black on registered mail

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Estimate
£12,000 to £15,000

Starting price
£9500

Sale 21045 Notices
Another Registered cover exists with four single 1d Blacks.