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Auction: 9007 - Great Britain Stamps & Postal History
Lot: 114

x Great Britain Postal History 1840 Uniform Penny Postage Overseas Mail 1840 (10 Jan.) entire letter to Bruxelles rated "1/4", the flap with a good strike of open top London despatch c.d.s. with Ostende (11/1) and Bruxelles (12/1) c.d.s. and with an extra "10" charge mark in manuscript. Additional note on side flap, "... this is the first of the penny post days ...". A delightful and rare cover sent on the first day of the Uniform Penny Post. B.P.A. Certificate (2003). Photo Estimate £ 1,000-1,200

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£450