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Auction: 24019 - Stamps and Covers of Great Britain
Lot: 1016

(x) Great Britain
Merchant Mail
Incoming
From France
1572 (20 June) entire letter from Antonio Toucque and Geronimo Carell in Rouen to Filippo Corsini in London, endorsed "Le porto di sei st" and rated "6d." Merchant Adventurers charge, letter concerns the loading of two bales of satin and two chests of silk with three merchant's marks drawn in the margin. Very fine and rare with postal rate. Photo

provenance:
Christie's Robson Lowe, 11 June, 1986, Lot 184

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Sold for
£1,200

Starting price
£300