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Auction: 24019 - Stamps and Covers of Great Britain
Lot: 1014

(x) Great Britain
Merchant Mail
From Ireland
1630 (30 June) entire letter from Thomas Bate (on behalf of Sir Matthew de Renzi) in Cork "To the worppll. Peeter Richante, Merchant Stranger &c. London being a manuscript second Bill of Exchange for £100, endorsed "2a" (similar to Robson Lowe's type 61 which he believed to be a recipient's endorsement) to denote this and carried by the Merchant Strangers postal service. One of very few examples crossing the Irish Sea prior to 1650. Exceptionally fine and clean, rare. Photo

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