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1862 Parliamentary Notice cover franked SG84 +SG82 (6d Parliamentary Notice rate + 4d registration)

SG84 6d lilac no hairlines plus SG81 4d vermillion no hairlines. Scarce inland franking combo.

Sent by solicitors Hope & Mackay in EDINBURGH to George Fyffe Christie in GLASGOW. Registration marks were not required on parliamentary notices.

The notice in question will have been relating to the Caledonian Railway Improvement Act 1862. It will likely have been in connection with a compulsory purchase served on Christie whose villa and land in the Glasgow suburb Mount Vernon was located directly in or adjacent to the planned railway expansion which was planned to extend it into Glasgow’s leafy suburbs.

Such notices were required to be sent by 15 December in the given year of the act. So they were cutting it fine.

Christie was the son of the illustrator and postcard artist of the same name, as well as grandfather of more famous Scottish figurative artist Fyffe Christie