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lot # 2046 - British Commonwealth Stamps and Covers Great Britain
GREAT BRITAIN, Mulready Caricatures, John Leech, Design for ther New Postage Envelopes", broadsheet caricature, 378x271mm (design 335x224mm), "Published by Messrs Fores...May 6, 1840" imprint at bottom, couple of the design elements are postboys in the lower corners which The Times lamented were not in the final design plus leech's trademark "leech in a bottle" at bottom center, edge faults top and left, quarter-sized age stain lower left, VG-Fine, the earliest of the pictorial satiresSale 3044: The Dr. Larry C. Parks Collection of Postal Stationery Part I: British Commonwealth - Monday, June 21 - 10 a.m. Eastern
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