Item 1003 1840 1d Mulready wrapper: fine/very fine example, stereo A6, Bath to London , October 21 1840. Tear to top rear flap but with full wafer seal in red. 

Price: £195.00 

Item 1004 1840 1d Mulready wrapper: very fine example, stereo A247, Forme 5, from the rare second series.  Gosport, February 10^th 1841, to London, with red cross and sent on the first day that the black cross was officially introduced – perhaps the sub postmaster/mistress had not read the GPO’s instructions for the changing of ink colour? A full yellow wafer seal on reverse. Rare combination of features. 

Price: £425.00   

Item 289 1840 1d Mulready envelope A153

Birmingham to York, used on MAY 17 1840, the Second SUNDAY after its official issue. Some creasing with an orange cross matching the Birmingham cds on reverse for this date. Fine and rare.

Price: £585.00 SOLD

Item 290 1840 1d Mulready Letter Sheet A25

Bath to a Cambridge College , used on MAY 24 1840, the Third SUNDAY after its official issue.    Some creasing and faults on reverse but a rare and attractive example which displays well the Bath date upright when the rear flap is raised. 

Price:  £450.00

Item 291 1840 1d Mulready envelope A148

London to Shaftesbury, October 13 1840, cancelled contrary to regulations by TWO orange crosses. Possible that the first cross was struck to the right of Britannia and this error corrected by a second cross correctly applied to Britannia. Fine and rare. 

Price:  £375.00

Item 292 1842 1d Mulready Letter Sheet

 with Advertisement inside: London to St Helier, Jersey in the Channel Islands with on reverse London cds 24 September 1842 and a part Jersey receiver for  September 29 1842.  Several faults on reverse but an attractive example of an underpaid Mulready going to the CI’s with m/s ‘2’ and a handstruck More to Pay both in black.  The advert inside is in blue, spec MA34g, for ‘English and Scottish Law Fire and Life Assurance’.  Rare.  

Price:  £250.00 
 

Item 1009 1840 1d Mulready wrapper. Fine/very fine example, stereo A17, London to Hampton Court , January 15^th 1842. Very fine London black cross.  

Price: £185.00   

Item 1010 1840 1d Mulready wrapper

A30, exceptional mint example in Post Office fresh condition and one of the finest we have seen or handled. Rare item in this condition.  

Price: £220.00   

Item 1011. 1840 2d Mulready wrapper 

a99, very fine mint example.  

Price: £150.00   

Item 1012 1840 2d Mulready envelope,

Deraedemaeker reprint of the Punch Magazine Anti Graham envelope. Exceptionally fine impression and in superb condition for this.  

Price: £85.00   

SOLD

Item 293  1842  2d Mulready Letter Sheet a105

Stone, Staffs to Ecclesial, 2 September 1842. Some light creasing with a very light black MX leaving an unusual printing flaw on Britannia’s shield clearly visible.  Very scarce/rare. 

Price:  £695.00