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1857 MAIL GLOUCESTER TO BROADWAY, WORCS WITH 'GLOUCESTER/312' SPOON (RA37) AND 'MISSENT-TO/HEREFORD' HAND STAMP (HF172). Fine envelope from Gloucester to 'Sir Thos Phillipps Bart, Broadway, Worcestershire' with fine die 2 1d in a rather attractive orange-brown shade (SG33) lettered QI tied good to fine strike 'GLOUCESTER/312' spoon (RA37) AP 26 1857. Also on front fine strike 'MISSENT-TO/HEREFORD' hand stamp in dark blue (HF172), County Catalogue only records usage in black for 1857. (Ref 139456).