£1,900
1707 (May 27) Entire letter from Dublin "To the Right Honble the Lord Donerayle near Mallow" with small "Free" handstamp and "MA/27" Bishop Mark. Fine and rare, the earliest of just four recorded examples (a later 1707 example recently sold in Switzerland, incorrectly described as the earliest recorded Free (handstamp) for the whole of the British Isles). One example of the rare circular framed Free (see next lot) in the National Library of Ireland is supposedly dated 1706, but is more probably 1708, in which case this letter has the earliest recorded British Free handstamp. Photo on Page 24.
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