£280
Belgium: pre-stamp collection, 1621 to 1839, in green SG 'Simplex' album - 30 entires, wraps and fronts, mostly the foremost, with various rating, despatch, transit and receipt marks. Includes Government, maritime, military and Recipients in Britain, France and Switzerland as well as Spanish period, messenger-carried letter, Mons - Florence and Scottish wheeltax surcharge noted on 'steamer' letter. In addition historical notes in plastic sleeve.
From the collection of Tom Pring, a highly respected member of the Belgian Study Circle and the author of two works on Belgian issues, ‘Fine Barbe Varieties’ (2009) and ‘1893 Armoires du Royaume’ (2015). Pring was half-way through a work on the Ostend-Dover Route, which he was sadly unable to complete.
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