Lot 72
GB Playing Card Duty: c.1871 Booth Type 118G 3d Complete wrapper

Revenue & Telegraph Stamps of the World | 5954
Auction: 21 November 2023 at 09:30 GMT
£288
Description
Playing Card Duty: c.1871 Booth Type 118G 3d Complete wrapper (Perkins Bacon Plate 3, state 2 ) with ‘ARTISTIC PLAYING CARDS/ (Late HUNT'S)’ appropriation and engraved portrait of Henry VIII, USED, neatly unfolded without damage to reveal a full wrapper. Creasing and minor marks as would be expected given the nature of use, still a very rare survival with hardly any used wrappers of this type known to have survived, and a charming piece of social history. Ex Walton.

