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Auction B46 24-25 Aug 2022
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The Sir David Kirch Collection of Skit Notes - Part Three
A Skit Note by an unknown printer, for Self Grumble & Bearmuch, 2 Pence, 1 August 1795, serial number added by hand 119, promising to pay 'Sir Marmaduke Monopoly or bearer, on the Conquest of France and Establishment of Royalty', signed by Stephen Starvation and Daniel Discontent, with a vignette of John Bull carrying a sack full of taxes and saying 'God Save the King', very good to about fine and very scarce, this is one of two known printings with identical text but from an entirely different plate £100-£150
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This note is both a comment on the French Revolution, and the amount of taxes being paid in the United Kingdom as a result.
A Skit Note by an unknown printer, for Self Grumble & Bearmuch, 2 Pence, 1 August 1795, serial number added by hand 119, promising to pay 'Sir Marmaduke Monopoly or bearer, on the Conquest of France and Establishment of Royalty', signed by Stephen Starvation and Daniel Discontent, with a vignette of John Bull carrying a sack full of taxes and saying 'God Save the King', very good to about fine and very scarce, this is one of two known printings with identical text but from an entirely different plate £100-£150
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This note is both a comment on the French Revolution, and the amount of taxes being paid in the United Kingdom as a result.