Lot 60104 – 1841 (12 July) small envelope to London bearing 1d black, marked “38 Registered” and 1/-“

1841 (Jul 12) Envelope to London with 1840 1d black pl.1b HD, small to good margins and just touching at top, well tied by a brownish red Maltese Cross with Emsworth despatch cds alongside, boldly marked “38 Registered” and 1/-” rate in red-brown ink, with London Paid tombstone, a very rare usage with this being the only recorded example of a plate 1 used on registered mail and a very late use of the red Maltese Cross which should have been changed to black in February 1841, ex Alan Holyoake RDP FRPSL, cert BPA. (2010).