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Auction: 22018 - The Klempka Family Collection of Great Britain - Part One
Lot: 90

Great Britain
1840 Mulready
Caricatures
R.W. Hume, Musical envelope No. 1, "Robert Burns": 1842 (5 Feb.) depicting the Poet and a wreath of flowers which are hand coloured, from Leith to the Post Master at Dover, bearing 1841 1d. red-brown on blued paper, KJ, tied by black Maltese cross; the flaps bearing the sheet music and lyrics to "O For Ane and Twenty, Tam!", on the reverse the lyrics to "The Exile's Song", some reinforcement along the folds, though highly attractive and rare, one of only two recorded hand-coloured Burns caricatures. R.P.S. Certificate (2004). Photo

provenance:
E.E. Yates, 1949

Meredith, 1957

Wally Knox, December 1979

Louis Grunin, May 2004

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Sold for
£4,500

Starting price
£1500