1771-1792 SWEDISH KING GUSTAV III
ROYAL DECREE

Royal Decree from King Gustaf III including new laws for tolls, loading, unloading ships, shipping, duties and a special punishment for berating and physically attacking government customs officials on the docks.

Contents in Swedish. Condition: Very Fine Black Print Broadside two sheets, batonne laid paper, bifolium into eight pages. Text on eight 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 Gustaf III - Gustav III
House of Holstein-Gottorp
13 January 1746 – March 29, 1792
Reigned (1771 - 1792)

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.