The Sherborn Collection is a collection of 1841-85

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stamped envelope A stamped envelope or postal stationery envelope (PSE) is an envelope with a printed or embossed indicium indicating the prepayment of postage. It is a form of postal stationery. United Kingdom The Sherborn Collection in the British Library Phi ...

s that forms part of the British Library Philatelic Collections. The collection was formed by C. Davis Sherborn and donated to the British Museum in 1913.The Sherborn Collection.
British Library, 29 January 2012.

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