£240
HEALTH & SAFETY, QUARANTINE, COVERS & EPHEMERA: A box file containing a wide-ranging/eclectic 1866-2000s (but mostly 1960s) accumulation of covers, etc. relating to health or containment of disease inc. advertising covers such as an env. with corner panel "GALESBURG WATER CURE/AND/Hygeinic [sic] Institute"; a very attractive 1942 env. ex Ecuador to USA with advertising panel for the "PAN AMERICAN SOCIETY/OF TROPICAL RESEARCH" with fine "EXAMINED BY/[ms] 7385" hs and purple boxed RELEASED/BUREAU OF/Entomology and Plant Quarantine/U.S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE/NEW YORK, N.Y." cachet; 1941 form from the same department with "TEXAS/MATURE FRUIT/TAX PAID" coupon attached & tied by v. fine large blue Inspector's cachet; plus others with various cachets and labels, and forms such as "CATTLE PLAGUE ENQUIRY", 1858 British Medical Journal, and a 1915 County Borough of Newport "REPORT on the outbreak of Bacterial Food Poisoning", etc. [Ex Vandervelde]. (c. 110 items) Cross Reference: MEDICAL, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, GREAT BRITAIN
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