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Auction: 16043 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 141

(x) Documents
Middle East
Transfer of Packet Letters
1847 (11 September) "Original" receipt of letters for conveyance to Bombay from William Lowe of the Indian Navy on H.C. Sloop Elphinstone and commander in the Gulf of Persia to H.M. Sloop Cruizer (1828-49) at Bushire Roads. The letters were for the Superintendent Indian Navy, the Post Master General (2) and "one Native Letter for the British Agent at Muscat" and signed in blue in by Lt. Robury R.N. (?). Usual folding creases. A very unusual item of Persian Gulf postal history. Photo

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