£700
BELGIUM - VERY EARLY 'CORSINI' LONDON POSTAL RATE - "G 10½" (ONE OF ONLY TWO KNOWN) EX ANTWERP; Fine 18 Dec. 1573 EL written "In Anversa" [= Antwerp; written in Italian] addressed to "Magro Filippo Corsini in Londra" with sender's "per q[uest]a" annotation ["by this"] at lower left and having clear "G 10½" (10½ groats = 42d) Merchant Stranger's Post postal charge on the front. An unusually high postal charge for this early date (only 9 earlier Corsini Merchant Strangers rate covers are recorded), and one of only two G10½ rates in the whole Corsini archive. Exhibition Item. [Ex 4 Sept. 1984 'Corsini' auction, lot 192; also ex Charless Hahn, Cavendish 9 Mar. 2007, lot 1143; realised £420+BP.] Cross Reference: EARLY LETTERS, BELGIUM, POSTAGE DUE MARKS, LONDON POSTAL HISTORY
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