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Auction: 22121 - Stamps and Covers of Great Britain - e-Auction
Lot: 1023

(x) Great Britain
Postal History
A Superb Strike of the Curved "Guernsey" Handstamp
1796 (14 Dec.) entire letter in French from Guernsey to Southampton charged "7" with attractive curved "guernsey" handstamp. The recipient was an Officer with Mortemart's Regiment, one of three emigre regiments in British Service and has appeared to have escaped France to England via Guernsey. Very fine

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£150