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Auction: 5011 - Stamps & Covers of the World
Lot: 778

Great Britain 1840 (4 May) "The Times" newspaper, including nearly a full column of witty, or rather scathing readers´ letters on the designs for the Mulready "as to Britannia, she looks as if the loss sustained in the Post-Office Revenue was to be deducted from her pin-money"), Penny Black and Two Pence Blue ("The adhesive stamp is a libel upon the fair countenance of our Queen"), etc.; light folds. Fresh, fine and rare Estimate £ 350-400

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