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Auction: 24019 - Stamps and Covers of Great Britain
Lot: 1021

(x) Great Britain
Merchant Mail
Incoming
From France
1600 (8 Oct.) entire letter from Pandolf Cenami in Rouen to "A Magri Sri. Bartolomeo Corsini, Londra", endorsed "Per Q[ues]ta" (by this letter) alongside "xij d" rate in different hand on arrival in Plymouth and paying the Plymouth to London rate. The only known incoming Corsini letter rated by the Plymouth post, an important rarity.

provenance:
Christie's Robson Lowe, 11 June, 1986, Lot 201

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

Sold for
£800

Starting price
£280