Lot no. 1300

1d. black, plate 2, JJ, very large and regular margins all round, tied by neat red MC on local London envelope, Receiving House Straight line "STRAND" on front, backstamped "AU 28 1840". The letter is adressed to "Rev. S. Garrat", Islington. Reverend C. Samuel Garrat was priest of St. Stephen's, Islington at the time.