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Auction: 24019 - Stamps and Covers of Great Britain
Lot: 1013

(x) Great Britain
Merchant Mail
From Ireland
1591 (6 Oct.) entire letter from Guglielmo Petala in Dublin to "Alli Molto Mag.ci ss.rs filippo Corsini, Vincentio della Barne in London" in which Petala reports that "at Waterford Gugliem Bicker has 2000 barrels and that he is happy to sell all or some" with further dealings discussed with Robert Cutts and his agent Bom Bishop, arranging as much grain as last year, as it is a good harvest and the grain is very dry.". Very fine and important being one of only eleven letters from Ireland ex the Corsini correspondence. Photo

provenance:
Christie's Robson Lowe, 11 October, 1988, Lot 220

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Sold for
£800

Starting price
£800