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Auction: 24019 - Stamps and Covers of Great Britain
Lot: 1004

(x) Great Britain
Merchant Mail
Inland
From Norwich
1584 (14 Dec.) entire letter from Louis Cantin to "Bartholomie Corsini", London, rated "4d." by the Merchant Adventurers Post, the letter concerns the price of cloth and the state of the market and arrived in London on the 19th. Very minor filing fold though a fine and early postal charge. Photo

provenance:
Christie's Robson Lowe, 11 October, 1988, Lot 100

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Sold for
£380

Starting price
£280