1753 SWEDISH KING ADOLPH FRIEDRICH
ROYAL PROCLAMATION

Royal Prohibition from King Adolph Friedrich against illegally raising prices when goods are being sold or bought. Persons who raise prices for their own benefit will have to pay a fee of twenty gold daler and be forced to give up their goods. If the goods can not be given up, for example by a craftsmen, they will have to pay five-hundred silver daler, half to the informant and half to the Hospital of Stockholm.

Contents in Swedish. Condition: Very Fine Black Print Broadside on single sheet, batonne laid paper, bifolium into four pages. Text on three pages. Manuscript markings showing postal delivery through the Swedish Royal Crown Post to Löderup, Skäne, for public proclamation. Measures 175mm wide x 220mm tall folded.

King Adolph Friedrich - Adolf Fredrik
House of Holstein-Gottorp
May 14, 1710 – February 12, 1771
Reigned (1751 - 1771)

Svensk Kronopost - Swedish Royal Crown Post
with Kronoslinga - Crown Coil (meander)

Post Detail:

 Crown Coil
 of the Royal Post

The wavy line (known as a meander) with two horizontal lines through it and three "crowns" in the spaces (all together known as a Crown Coil) was the indicia that this was to be sent through the Royal Swedish Crown Post. The text below indicates it was sent to a church in Löderup, in Skäne near Ystad, in the southeast of Sweden, where it was to be publicly proclaimed.