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1890 PENNY POSTAGE JUBILEE, ½D BROWN NEWSPAPER WRAPPER TO NORWAY WITH 'SOUTH KENSINGTON' CIRCULAR EXHIBITION HAND STAMP AND 'TUBE POST' EXHIBITION HAND STAMP. Fine QV ½d brown newspaper wrapper, slight creasing, from the South Kensington exhibition to Bergen, Norway uprated with ½d vermilion (SG197). On front and clear of stamps very fine strikes 'PENNY POSTAGE JUBILEE/V CROWN R/1840 1890/2.JY.90/SOUTH KENSINGTON' exhibition hand stamp, also very fine strike of the very scarce 'PENNY POSTAGE JUBILEE/2 JULY 1890/1840 V CROWN R 1890/TUBE POST/1D. SOUTH KENSINGTON' pneumatic tube post hand stamp in mauve. Very fine and very scarce usage particularly going to Norway. (Ref 137738).