Lot 166
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cover -- 1809 (29 July) entire letter from Guiseppe Tonon at Wantage (a surgeon taken prisoner on the French sloop "Roneo") to Peitro Pesaro (one time Venetian Ambassador to Rome) in London, the address panel with good to fine light strike of the black oval "TRANSPORT OFFICE/(crown)/G.R/PRISONERS OF WAR" overstruck by fine black "3" and showing faint red London Twopenny Post unpaid "Bge. St. West." at lower-left, also a letter insert in French dated 14 August 1809 from Pietro Pesaro to Sir Rupert George appealing for Tonon's release; fine. Photo for the entire letter

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cover -- 1809 (29 July) entire letter from Guiseppe Tonon at Wantage (a surgeon taken prisoner on the French sloop "Roneo") to Peitro Pesaro (one time Venetian Ambassador to Rome) in London, the address panel with good to fine light strike of the black oval "TRANSPORT OFFICE/(crown)/G.R/PRISONERS OF WAR" overstruck by fine black "3" and showing faint red London Twopenny Post unpaid "Bge. St. West." at lower-left, also a letter insert in French dated 14 August 1809 from Pietro Pesaro to Sir Rupert George appealing for Tonon's release; fine. Photo for the entire letter