2290

Sale number: 45

1840 Mulready and Caricatures and other Printed Envelopes: A selection comprising Fores's Coaching envelope no. 6 front used to Bishop Auckland with ''Seaton/Penny Post'' on front (ex Yates), Southgate envelope no. 1 addressed but without postal markings, Thomas White an unused example of the broadsheet format''THE NEW POST-OFFICE ENVELOPE'', usual folds and splitting; Dereademaeker reproductions of Fores Comic envelope no. 1, Southgates envelopes nos. 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, Leech's 'Punch' Anti-Graham envelope, and Menzies envelope state 1B, mainly good to fine. (11 items).

Price Realised £350

2291

Sale number: 45

1840 Mulready and Caricatures and other Printed Envelopes: A selection of unused contemporary (?) reproductions (5), comprising Fores's Courting no. 1, Dancing no. 3, Spooners no. 4 and 5 with imitation Southgate flaps numbered 2 and 1, Southgate Ladies School no. 2 but numbered 4 on reverse, also a Deraedemaeker reproduction of Southgate no. 1 on yellow paper, fair to fine. (6).

Price Realised £290

2292

Sale number: 45

1840 Mulready and Caricatures and other Printed Envelopes: Deraedemaeker reproductions of Valentines Penny Postage (2), Anti Slavery, Peace (2) and Intemperance (2), envelopes, fine.

Price Realised £150

2293

Sale number: 45

1840 Mulready and Caricatures and other Printed Envelopes: Fores's: A set of unused envelopes nos. 1 (''COURTING'') to 10 (''CHRISTMAS''), all attractively hand coloured, nos. 1, 4 and 6 being fronts, some imperfections but an attractive and scarce group. (10). Photo.

Price Realised £2200

2294

Sale number: 45

1840 Mulready and Caricatures and other Printed Envelopes: Leech's ''PUNCH'S ANTI-GRAHAM ENVELOPE'', printed in blue in letter sheet format, unused, some tone spots and slight creasing but fine for this rare caricature. Photo.

Price Realised £350

2295

Sale number: 45

1840 Mulready and Caricatures and other Printed Envelopes: A. Lesage: Clerical envelope no. 1 'The Church Tossed on a Stormy Sea', a very rare used example of this envelope, type A, sent 1840 (June 29th) from London to Southwell with 1840 1d. black plate 3 OJ with good margins except upper left corner just clipped, tied by neat red Maltese Cross, some imperfections. Ex Alcock, Ambrose and Bohn. R.P.S. certificate (1996) states 'Envelope cleaned and stamp lifted and replaced'. Photo.

Price Realised £5500

2296

Sale number: 45

1840 Mulready and Caricatures and other Printed Envelopes: William Spooner Caricatures: Envelopes nos. 1 to 14 unused, a few imperfections but mainly good to fine, very scarce. (14). Photo.

Price Realised £2300

2297

Sale number: 45

1840 Mulready and Caricatures and other Printed Envelopes: William Spooner Caricatures: Envelopes nos. 1, 2, 9, 11 and 12, good to fine unused. (5).

Price Realised £650

2298

Sale number: 45

1840 Mulready and Caricatures and other Printed Envelopes: 1840 Spooner caricature envelope number 10 'Shooting' used from Dolgelly to Mold with 1840 1d. black plate 1b AE (double ''E''), stamped and addressed on the reverse and with ''DOLGELLY'' undated circle in red, adhesive with ample to very large margins except a little into at upper left corner and tied by neat red Maltese Cross, a fine example of this rare envelope, of which only three are recorded in private hands by Bodily, Jarvis and Hahn in British Pictorial Envelopes of the 19th Century, this not being one of those. Photo.

Price Realised UNSOLD

2299

Sale number: 45

1840 Mulready and Caricatures and other Printed Envelopes: William Spooner Caricatures: Envelope number 13, very fine unused, very scarce. Photo.

Price Realised £210

2300

Sale number: 45

1840 Mulready and Caricatures and other Printed Envelopes: 1844 (June 16th) lady's envelope printed in blue, sent from Wateringbury via Maidstone and London to Harleston, prepaid in cash and with manuscript '1' in red on front together with ''WATERINGBURY'' u.d.c. in black, London ''PAID'' tombstone in red and ''HARLESTON/JU 18/1844'' arrival c.d.s. in red-brown, backstamped at Maidstone, a superb and charming item with original enclosure (decorative notepaper printed in red). Photo.

Price Realised £1150