1768 SWEDISH KING ADOLPH FRIEDRICH
ROYAL PROCLAMATION

Royal Announcement from the King Adolph Friedrich and the Commerce Department (Country’s Commerce-College) about the King’s Graceful Prohibition against selling foreign tobacco leaf. It has come to the King’s attention that domestic tobacco production is being undermined by the selling of foreign tobacco. Foreign tobacco will be confiscated and the seller will pay a fee of ten silver dalers. (Nicolas von Oelreich, G. Hegardt, Js. J. Dragman, P. D. Holmér, L. Rosenborg, A. Faxe members of the Commerce Department)

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.

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