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Auction: 22018 - The Klempka Family Collection of Great Britain - Part One
Lot: 25

Great Britain
Parliamentary Envelopes
House of Lords
1d. red, with the word "Temporary" removed and "House of Lords" in lower case letters, setting 4, to Ashby de la Zouch, red crowned Paid datestamp of 1840 (3 Feb.); seal removed from the reverse, fine and very rare. R.P.S. Certificate (1952). S.G. PE7, £25,000. Photo

provenance:
Robson Lowe auction, January 1952

Oswald Marsh, April 1990

Grosvenor auction, December 2004

"Severn", April 2010


literature:
The 1840 prepaid Parliamentary envelopes, Huggins and Klempka (Illustrated page 43)

Stanley Gibbons Specialised Catalogue (illustrated page 25)

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Sold for
£4,000

Starting price
£4000