COFFEE HOUSE MAIL, PENNY POST, FREES, ETC.: 1681-1842 select...

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£420

COFFEE HOUSE MAIL, PENNY POST, FREES, ETC.: 1681-1842 selection with fine 1681 EL privately carried from Kent to Saffron Walden; 1734 EL Amsterdam to London "to be left ar bridges's Coffee House" with fine Bishop ds etc; 1768 EL Lisbon to London "at the Jamaica Coffee House"; 1828 E to Francis Freeling at the GPO with fine TAUNTON / Penny Post hs; 1835 E to Exeter with fine reddish Otterton / Py Post hs; 1836 EL Marlborough to Cirencester with fine boxed PAID AT / MARLBOROUGH hs; 1809 EL to London with FARINGDON / 75 hs with Inspector red crown and rerated as a double letter; 1830 EL Paris to Edinburgh with fine boxed ½d. Scottish Wheel tax hs, Paris hs, etc. (20 items) Cross Reference: KENT, COFFEE HOUSES, NETHERLANDS, WILTSHIRE