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Bidboard # 1875
Lot # 148
Catalogue Value or Estimate: $650.00
Price Realized: $90
Great Britain # U3

Sound and F/VF used 1 Penny Black Mulready sheet, 1841 usage, addressed to City Road (a main road in London, famous from nursery rhyme: "Up and down the City Road - In and out the Eagle - That's the way the money goes - Pop! goes the weasel"). Sharp Maltese Cross cancel in black, faint straight-line street cancel in red. Light usual file fold. A superior quality example of the world's first domestic letter sheet. 2019 Scott US$500.00=