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Auction: 14026 - Stamps and Covers of South East Asia including the Peter Cockburn Award Winning Collection of Straits Settlements and Malayan States Revenue Stamps
Lot: 766

Straits Settlements
Early Letters and Handstamps
1804 (26 Feb.) entire letter, headed "Ship Ganges", addressed to "William English Esq late, Surgeon in the Honourable Comp's Service, Humber Bank, Hull" from Nat Turner, believed to be the Ship's purser (private circular cachet in red on reverse) and showing, on reverse, London transit datestamp (8.8). The contents of the letter describe the Battle of Pulo Aura in the Straits of Malacca where a convoy of East Indiamen drove off and chased a powerful French naval squadron under Admiral Linois. Photo

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SG$8,000