145267 1844 1d MULREADY WRAPPER LONDON TO SHEFFIELD 'JOHN BESEMERES AND SONS' ADVERT VARIETY MISCUT AT BOTTOM (SPEC MA412e, next edition to be listed MA 412g).

1844 1d MULREADY WRAPPER LONDON TO SHEFFIELD 'JOHN BESEMERES AND SONS' ADVERT VARIETY MISCUT AT BOTTOM (SPEC MA412e, next edition to be listed MA 412g). Fine used 1844 1d Mulready wrapper, stereo A6 from London to 'Miss Hawley, Weston Hill, Sheffield', cancelled superb strike London '2' Inland Office numeral, usual vertical fold. On revese London date stamp 31 MY 1844 and 'SHEFFIELD' date stamp 1 JU 1844. Small part Mulready missing at left, within very fine advert with text at top'LIST AND ESTIMATE OF NECESSARIES FOR AN INFANTRY CADET, PROCEEDING TO INDIA BY THE CAPE OR LONG SEA ROUTE; FURNISHED BY JOHN BESEMERES AND SONS/MANUFACTURING OUTFITTERS, .... NEAR THE EAST INDIA HOUSE, LONDON'. Advert lists with prices commodities such as cloth shirts, linen collars, pillow cases, flannel waistcoats etc etc that it can supply. Very fine advert and one of only two examples recorded to date that are VARIETY MISCUT AT BOTTOM (Spec MA412e but to be listed next edition as MA412g). (Ref 145267).