Jun 25, 2024 - Sale 2674

Sale 2674 - Lot 99

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
ROYAL PARDON FOR PARKING TICKET ELIZABETH II; QUEEN OF THE UK. Partly-printed Document Signed, "Elizabeth R," pardoning Robert Arthur Hasell for violating the law regulating the parking of motor vehicles. Countersigned by Home Secretary James Callaghan. 1½ pages, folio, written on recto and verso of single sheet; slight fading to Queen's signature, paper seal intact. [London], 31 October 1969

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"Robert Arthur Hasell . . . was convicted of being the driver of a motor vehicle which had been left after the excess charge had been incurred for longer than the time prescribed contrary to Article 10 of The Parking Places . . . Order, 1965 . . . and Section 42 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act, 1967, and was ordered to pay a fine of four pounds . . . . We in consideration of some circumstances humbly represented unto Us, are Graciously pleased to extend Our Grace and Mercy unto . . . Hasell . . . . and to pardon and remit unto him the fine imposed upon him . . . ."