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Auction: 22018 - The Klempka Family Collection of Great Britain - Part One
Lot: 104

Great Britain
Pictorial Envelopes
1841 (13 Aug) the 'Victoria and Albert' first type envelope with side panels lettered "V" and "A" at right (not seriffed type) addressed to Dumfries bearing 1841 1d. red-brown plate 8, QB (four margins) tied by neat Maltese Cross in black, the reverse with faint strikes of Edinburgh c.d.s. (13.8) and Dumfries boxed datestamp for the following day; some peripheral repairs and thinning not detracting from the appearance. A very rare envelope being with one of just six recorded. R.P.S. Certificate (1996). Photo

provenance:
Robson Lowe auction, February 1971

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Sold for
£10,000

Starting price
£1500