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Auction: 22023 - Stamps and Covers of Great Britain
Lot: 2

(x) Great Britain
Postal History
A Rare Elizabethan Letter
1594 (26 May) entire letter from Sir Thomas Porter with integral address panel reading "To the right Worshipful the Mayor of the sittie of Glouc and to be left at his brother there, or to either of them". The paper with some wrinkling otherwise in good state of preservation and an important early domestic letter.

Note: Sir Thomas Porter (-1598) Knight of the Shire and served as Sheriff of Gloucester.

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Sold for
£650

Starting price
£200