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Auction: 8038 - Great Britain Stamps & Postal History
Lot: 1992

Great Britain Revenues 1783, a very large printed official document (printed by T. Saint of Newcastle) with a comprehensive listing of the various duties and how they should be employed, headed "A Table of the Stamps now in Use in England, with an Account of the several Particulars for which each Stamp is used.", measuring 22 x 24 inches; 1803 large officially printed certificate issued to George Harrison of Rye, allowing to him issue various licenses and to collect the accrued taxes, showing a large vignette of King George III at top-left with two blue duty labels and silver escutcheons; 1893 document entitled "Certificate under the Alkali & Works Regulation Act", used as a sample, with impressed orange-red £3 revenue stamp, overprinted "specimen" type 13; creased, otherwise fine. Also Embossed Postal Stationery 6d. purple and 1/- green (date slugs for ´7 12 55´), cut-square, with stationery ´specimen´ overprint type S3, fine Estimate £ 250-300

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