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Auction: 24025 - Historical Documents Featuring the Major David Cecil Underwood Jr Collection of Royal Visits to India 1876-1906
Lot: 199

Great Britain
Postal history
1840 "Design for the New Postage Envelopes" published by "Messrs Fores, 41 Piccadilly, May 6th 1840" showing a "Design submitted to Government by an aspiring Artist Mulled-at ready". A spoof of the Mulready envelope (14x10 inches) lightly tipped within a marbled paper folder titled "Penny Postage".

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