Lot 1103
GB 1841 1d black cover with Hawkshead Penny Post






Stamps & Covers of Great Britain | S25019
Auction: 16 October 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
1841 (1 March) lettersheet franked four-margined 1d black Plate 8 KE, tied by black Maltese Cross with fair Hawkshead Penny Post at left, part contents. A little grubby, small cover tear at top. SG 2. Cat. £1,000
Footnote
Stephen Spring Rice was an Anglo-Irish civil servant, and a moving force in the British Relief Association, instrumental in providing aid for victims of the Irish Famine. He famously returned the Queen's initial donation of £1000, on the grounds that it was 'not enough'; it was subsequently doubled






