Great Britain 1840 1d Mulready Letterhead First Day of Usage, Forme 2, Stereo A27, ME1

Great Britain 1840 1d Mulready Letterhead First Day of Usage, Forme 2, Stereo A27, ME1Great Britain 1840 1d Mulready Letterhead Forme 2, Stereo A27, ME1. A very fine used example sent within London to Ratcliff Highway, Wapping. Neatly cancelled by an oily red Maltese Cross with a blue "T. P. Charles St West" receiving office handstamp at lower left. Backstamped with a London dispatch datestamp for 'MY. 6. 1840', (First day of issue). A very fine example of the Mulready on the first day of postal usage, with such covers being notorious

Accompanied with a Sismondo certificate of authenticity (2011)

A fine mint set with original gum

except R2/1 with small adhesion)

Great Britain 1887 1/2d Vermillion (Army Telegraphs) SG197var

SG371 & Belgium 1938 40c + 5c brown

A scarce trio of used examples

The photograph is inscribed in Spanish to Dr Almaguer Paz

and IMPERFORATE ½d colour trials

laureate and draped bust left

These two handwritten letters are part of that correspondence

from frame plate II)

Signed clearly in black ink with a bold stroke of his pen