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Auction: 22013 - Stamps and Covers of Great Britain
Lot: 1108

(x) Great Britain
Mulready Caricatures and Illustrated Envelopes
1897 (15 May) envelope addressed to Miss Geraldine King-Harman. Government House, Gibraltar, franked 1887 2½d. purple on blue, with a beautiful handpainted illustration of a monkey climbing a tree having stolen the bonnet of a crying child, arrival datestamp on reverse; small part of flap missing. A superb envelope from the series painted by Hugh Rose

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Sold for
£1,400

Starting price
£400