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Auction: 5011 - Stamps & Covers of the World
Lot: 638

Crime and Punishment Crimes Forgery 1888 (13 Jan.) unstamped envelope with original enclosure, addressed to Bedford Square, showing part Holloway duplex and h.s. ´2d´ due marking, sent from a prisoner (Sydney M. Lawrence) who was accused of forging a bill of exchange for £64, also 1885 envelope with original enclosure, from a prisoner (Edmund Yates) at Holloway who was serving a four month sentence for libelling the Earl of Lonsdale, addressed to Paternoster Sq. bearing 1881 1d.; some faults though still most attractive Estimate £ 150-180

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