VERY RARE CHARLES GILPIN ANTI-WAR COVER USED WITH LEEDS HAND...

Hammer

£1,600

VERY RARE CHARLES GILPIN ANTI-WAR COVER USED WITH LEEDS HANDSTRUCK "2" MARK; Remarkable 28 Feb. 1851 usage of the Charles Gilpin design Anti-War propaganda envelope (embossed oval "PEACE/AND/BROTHERHOOD" flap) - the address-side almost covered with anti-war slogans and a text about the Universal Brotherhood of the "PEACE SOCIETIES" - from Leeds to Pontefract with very fine Leeds Handstruck "2" at top right in the stamp position a very fine "LEEDS" cds nearby along with a smudged dark blue "WOODHOUSE-LANE" sub-office mark. This is the second type (without the Gilpin imprint on reverse); a single 1849 example of the 1st type (with imprint) was in the Yates (and Bodily) Collection, an 1867 3rd type is illustrated in Bodily/Jarvis/Hahn (p.207) and one other example of this 2nd-type (used from Huddersfield in 1852) is known (Bodily collection). A very similar design is recorded as having been used by the "Boston Peace Society" in the US. One of the rarest of all the British Propaganda envelopes and one of only 4 examples (of 3 types) recorded by us. Exhibition Item.