Lot 3044

Description

World, Australia, envelope addressed to Manager, Commercial Bank, ? (illegible), with Registered postage stamps dated Ap 7 81 and postmarked Melbourne Ap 8 81, also with stamp, 'Missent to Melbourne', with Victorian postage stamps for 6 pence and 2x2 pence and wax seal on back; Great Britain, addressed portion of a shipped letter postmarked for General Post Office at Cape of Good Hope 1843, addressed to Messrs John Gladstone & Co, Liverpool, also shipping stamp dated 22 Dec 1843. The first torn at one side and repaired from behind with tape, a few spots of foxing, overall fine. (2)

John Gladstone & Co is probably the trading company in Liverpool that was owned by Sir John Gladstone and his brothers.