Great Britain 1840 2d Mulready Lettersheet, SGME3,5 Guyana stamps Newfoundland 1865-71 12c chestnut on

Newfoundland 1865-71 12c chestnut on medium white paper

comprising four panes of 80 (8x10) separated by vertical gutters with arabesques and horizontal gutters with inscriptions

one for the bottom and the third for the two central characters

1983 date stamp

Mark Twain was in attendance as a founding member of the Robert Fulton Monument Association and sailed to the exposition aboard the yacht Kanawha

Great Britain 1840 2d Mulready Lettersheet, SGME3,5 Guyana stamps Newfoundland 1865-71 12c chestnut onGreat Britain 1840 2d Mulready Lettersheet, SGME3,5. A very fine used example uprated to the 6d per 3 ounce rate with two additional four margin 2d blues from plate 1, both cancelled and tied by crisp red Maltese Crosses. Sent from Bradford to Wetherby with a Bradford Yorks dispatch circular date stamp on reverse for 'JU. 4. 1840'. Archive folding and some light soiling but much better condition than normally seen for such covers. A very rare uprated