RARE COMPLETE USED "Post Magazine" LETTER-SHEET WITH 1d BLAC...

Hammer

£800

RARE COMPLETE USED "Post Magazine" LETTER-SHEET WITH 1d BLACK SENT FROM LONDON; 26 Sept. 1840 usage of Post Magazine (19 Sept. 1840 no.9 - with all three extra inner pages) with near 4m 1d Black (JD; touched at top left) seemingly tied by a very fine Experimental black London Maltese Cross (possibly not the original stamp; and so is offered for sale here 'as is' - not subject to return) with partly very fine red "T.P/Greenwich EO" alongside. The address has been erased and re-written (and is rebacked where the erasure thinned the paper); supposedly to a genuine firm in Shaftesbury, but the only backstamp is the local London mark in red, so the original address was almost certainly within central London. However, it is rare to find the full set of inner pages still complete, and the hand-written letter (from "Greenwich Hospital") asks for extra time to pay a seemingly sizeable debt.Cross Reference: ADVERTISING ENVELOPES, 1840 1d BLACKS, LONDON POSTAL HISTORY