1760 SWEDISH KING ADOLPH FRIEDRICH
ROYAL PROCLAMATION

Royal Announcement from the King and the National Defense Department (Country’s War-College) that saltpeter boilers not in home-use (for personal or agricultural purposes) must be surrendered to the government or the owners must pay a tax to the Royal Revenue. Signed on behalf of His Majesty the King and the Country’s War College with names on the back, which are Noblemen.

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 155mm wide x 195mm 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.

Offered by Berryhill & Sturgeon, Ltd.