Auction UPA 93

SPOONER CARICATURE NO.5. A very fine unused ORIGINAL envelope showing Britannia armed with a spear and shield and the lion reading the new Postal Regulations. On either side are depicted the advantages of cheap postage etc. Britannia on No.5 is armed for offence as well as defence, having both spear and shield; she appears in high good humour, sitting, with arms akimbo, on the back of the lion, who is reading the new Postal Regulations. On each side are depicted the advantages of cheap postage, and the parcel is plainly predicted. On the upper left is a boy saying, 'Oh, please Mr. Smut will you bring mother half a hundred coals?' to which the vendor replies, 'I can't bring them, 'cos I'm engaged, but I'll put'em in the post directly.' Below, these, a lady at the butcher's asks, 'Have you sent my Mutton, Mr. Sticken,' and receives the answer, 'The boy has just put it in the post, Miss.' On the other side are some developments to which we have not yet attained; an old gentleman enquires, 'Waiter, how long will my soup be?' and is told, 'It's just put in the post, sir.' Just beneath, a postman hands back an infant to a buxom female, with the remark, 'It's returned, marm; they won't take it in.' And in the right lower corner a small boy plaintively asks, 'Granny, can't you send belly-aches away by post?' (image available) {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid = £240.00)