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Auction: 25027 - Stamps and Covers of Great Britain
Lot: 2018

(x) Great Britain
Postal History
Elizabethan Royal Messengers
1565 (3 April) entire letter with wafer seal and address panel reading "To our loving ffriende, William Crysoe Esquire, Lieftenant of the, Castell of Dover be, theist", sending a warrant for summoning juries for searching premises with regards defects in the collection of customs and illegal exports, enquiring "whether any wares merchandise be now carried out of this realme into the porte beyonde the seas, contrarye to the Lawes and statutes of our Soveraign Ladie", signed "Thomas Wotton", Sheriff of Kent. Fine and most unusual

provenance:
Spink, Wellburn, November 2013

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

Estimate
£800 to £1,000

Starting price
£650