Printed or Hand Illustrated Envelopes
cover 1842 (c.) part front showing water coloured horse riders and entitled "Going! Going! gone for one penny" (for similar items see Bodily, Jarvis and Hahn pages 125-6), bearing 1841 1d., part of address cut-away, 1876 (1 Sept.) intruiging envelope with pen and ink designs showing several humourous but abstract scenes including octopus holding picture and Shakespeare-type character looking at Queen's portrait, 1892 (18 Jan.) envelope with pen and ink Christmas pudding, London local usage, also 1845 amusing French printed pictorial envelope for "premiere cinema" by T. Maurisset, unused; fair to fine

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cover 1842 (c.) part front showing water coloured horse riders and entitled "Going! Going! gone for one penny" (for similar items see Bodily, Jarvis and Hahn pages 125-6), bearing 1841 1d., part of address cut-away, 1876 (1 Sept.) intruiging envelope with pen and ink designs showing several humourous but abstract scenes including octopus holding picture and Shakespeare-type character looking at Queen's portrait, 1892 (18 Jan.) envelope with pen and ink Christmas pudding, London local usage, also 1845 amusing French printed pictorial envelope for "premiere cinema" by T. Maurisset, unused; fair to fine

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