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BEATRICE
(Mary Victoria Feodore, 1857-1944, Princess, Daughter & Companion of Queen Victoria)
End of an autograph letter signed 'Beatrice'
to Sir Theodore Martin, (1816-1909, K.G.B.), biographer (1874-1880) of Prince Albert and friend of Queen Victoria, reading ... after a very tiresome indisposition followed by the subscription, with the autograph envelope front, 4½ x 4 and 3 x 4, no place, no date, circa
Item Date: 1883
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Curiously, the 1d penny red stamp, imperforate on bluish paper, is of the type first issued in 1841 and discontinued about the time the Princess was born. It is an early issue (no plate mark, GH in corners), and the cancellation ([London] '26') does not extend to the paper, as it should. The two items appear to have been in water, and the stamp substituted.
the violet ink very faded (transcriptions enclosed), one corner of letter and margins of both pieces trimmed
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