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Auction: 5011 - Stamps & Covers of the World
Lot: 622

Crime and Punishment Crimes Assault 1780 solicitor´s letter claiming damages for his client, Thomas Charles, the victim of a vicious physical assault by a man named Moses Lamb – described as having ´with clubs, sticks, hands and fists made an assault…. knocked down, struck down, beat and bruised and ill treated him whereby he was in danger of losing his life´; fine and fresh, mounted on page with illustration of Marshalsea Prison where Lamb was confined Estimate £ 150-180

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