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Lot 3340



Great Britain 1840 Lesage caricature envelope (Clerical Env No. 2: "The Parsons Going It in Face of the Law"), used 1840 (20 June) from Edinburgh to Haddington, bearing 1840 1d black plate 3, tied by red Maltese Cross, sound and Fine usage of this very rare illustrated envelope of which only two sound examples are recorded.
Estimate 10,000 - 15,000

Ado Lesage had a shop at Hanover Street in London, where he sold prints and made picture frames. Although of foreign origin, Lesage published at least two caricature envelopes relating to the political unrest and the struggles being experienced by the Church of Scotland, which finally resulted in the formation of the Free Church in 1843. The Clerical Envelope No. 1 was entitled "The Church Tossed on a Stormy Sea." Approximately a dozen examples of envelope No. 1 are known to have survived. Envelope No. 2, offered here, is far scarcer with only about half that number of examples in any condition known.


 
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