Brienne Postal Archive: A letter folded, tied, and placed in a wrapper, Europe (1702) (UH0049,UH0097) from very hot chest Watch Video
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Description: Modelled after letter DB-1299 in the Brienne Collection, Sound & Vision, with permission. nnModel found in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries (MIT), Unlocking History Research Group archive, MC 0760. 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 Nethe