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Auction: 22018 - The Klempka Family Collection of Great Britain - Part One
Lot: 43

Great Britain
1840 Mulready
May Dates
1st May: 1d. lettersheet, A69, addressed to Worcester pre-paid in cash and cancelled by neat red tombstone Paid datestamp for "1 MAY 1840", alongside "P.O Strand/1py.P.Paid" straight-line postmark; there are a few faults including soiling and repairing nevertheless a very rare item being one of only four Mulready lettersheets recorded used on the 1st of May (one is in the Postal Museum). R.P.S. Certificate (2022). S.G. ME1. Photo

The Mulready envelopes and lettersheets were issued to the public on 1st May 1840, but were not valid for postage until the 6th May. All examples used before the 6th May should either be prepaid or have the postage due paid by the recipient



provenance:
Robson Lowe auction, October 1944

W.E. Sugden, January 1951

'Chartwell', December 2012


literature:
Illustrated in 'Great Britain 1840' by Michael Lea, the London Philatelist, vol. 85, p. 182 (1976)

Illustrated in 'May Dates' by Michael Jackson

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