Letterlocking: Brienne Postal Archive: A letter folded, tied, and placed in a wrapper, Europe (1702) from nb vision center Watch Video
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Description: Modelled after letter DB-1299 in the Brienne Collection, Sound & Vision, with permission. nnA very rare example of a tie remaining on a letterpacket. nnIn 1926, a seventeenth-century trunk of letters was given to the Museum voor Communicatie – now Sound & Vision – in The Hague, which was then, as now, the center of government, politics, and trade in The Netherlands. The trunk belonged to two of the most active postmasters of the day, Simon de Brienne and Marie Germain, a couple at th
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