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Auction: 3028 - The "Grant" Collection of Stamps & Postal History of Great Britain
Lot: 2004

Great Britain Postal History 1839 (25 Nov.) Metropolitan Life Assurance Society proposal reference entire letter from head office in London to Clapton, address panel with very fine fancy "post paid/metropolitan/life/assurance/society" and "Cornhill/3d. paid", turned and re-used back, address panel showing very fine handstruck "2" and good "T.P/Hackney"; 1865 envelope from London to Canada bearing 6d. and showing "insufficiently/prepaid", "unpaid/5" and "2d" handstamps; 1896 envelope from London to Canada bearing 1887-1900 2 1/2d. and showing framed "posted too late", 1902 "round Europe" postcard to England bearing adhesives of Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland and G.B., and 1906 Q.V. privately printed 3d. envelope, uprated with 1902-10 4d. green and brown, registered from London to The Hague Estimate £ 120-150

Sold for
£120