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lot # 6705 - grossbritannien Dokumente
1799/1845: Group of 7 items with 12 July 1799 Original Act of Parliament quarto document for "more secure Conveyance of Ship Letters and for granting to His Majesty certain rates of Postage"; quarto document dated 22 June 1825 Act "for granting to His Majesty Rates of Postage on the Conveyance of Letters and Packets to and from Colombia and Mexico"; Postal Notice dated 18 August 1840 concerning "Mails for Egypt and the East Indies by Steam Vessels via Falmouth"; November 1840 Notice on "Gratuites payable to the Commanders of Private Vessels...to the Cape of Good Hope" (small fault at top); August 1840 Noticew regarding the "Melting of the Wax" seals on letters from East and West Indies; Notice dated October 1847 on the amnded scheme for West India Mail Packet Service showing the Rates of Postage at base (faults); and Italian "Notificazione" on the launching of a new service with Steamships of the Lloyd Austriaco from Triest to the Ionian Islands detailing Postal Rates. Generally fine, a scarce group.
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