Lot 1078
Great Britain, (Ocean Penny Postage) Ocean Penny Postage, The Worlds Want and Britains Boon, Bradshaw & Blacklock design with verse at bottom, on 1851 signed lettersheet from social reform activist Elihu Burritt to a newspaper editor…May we ask you to promote the movement for an Ocean Penny Post by inserting the enclosed paragraph, with news clipping on Burritt affixed at lower left, Very Fine.Estimate $200 - 300.
Realized: $1,000