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Auction: 8038 - Great Britain Stamps & Postal History
Lot: 1001

Great Britain Postal History 1591-1985, forty-one items relating to specific types of crime: including Assault; Bastardy; Blackmail; Bribery; Burglary; Conspiracy; Debt; Drunkeness; Embezzlement; Forgery; Military Desertion; Murder; Paupery; Pickpocketing; Ransom; Resisting Arrest; Riot; Suicide; Treason, etc., a wonderful array of original letters (entires, letter enclosures, etc.), Acts of Parliament, printed documents, etc., mostly neatly mounted and annotated on leaves, accompanied by much original research with copies of public records/court documents, most of the cases covered are quite fascinating including 1591 Act of Parliament indicating the punishments for "The Mother and reputed Father of a Bastard", 1777 two-page letter referring to the Rev. Dodd who was found guilty of attempted bribery, then forgery before his public execution at Tyburn in front of 20,000 people, 1814 Act of Parliament describing in grisly detail the awful means of execution for the crime of high treason, 1892 items relating to the philatelic forgery case involving Jeffryes, Benjamin and Sarpi, 1903 and 1911 printed items referring to the "Moat Farm" and "Clapham Common" murders, 1935 envelope to Bruno R. Hauptmann in a New York prison (he was found guilty of the ´Baby Lindbergh´ murder and sent to the electric chair), 1985 printed police Restraining Order from the Chief Officer of the Falkland Islands naming those guilty of public drunkeness and how long they were banned from buying alcohol, etc., each item with full description from the original sale Estimate £ 1,000-1,200

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