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ILUSTRATED ENVELOPES: 'McGEE'S REGISTERED EXHIBITION ENVELOPE 1851' (Crystal Palace, Lion & Unicorn) in grey-lilac & fancy imprint 'John G McGee & Co/Merchant Clothiers & Hatters/...Belfast' in blue on the flap, stained - not toning - on both sides & the flap is stuck, unused. [Bodily Jarvis & Hahn stated there were two examples in the Knox Collection - one with the advertisement "inside the top flap", the other without an advert. Only one other example recorded, in the Hahn Collection. "All of these envelopes are rare"]