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Auction: 17025 - Bermuda, Crossroads of the Atlantic: A Postal History from 1617 to 1877 - The David Pitts Collection
Lot: 47

(x) Ship Letters
Because private ships did not maintain regular schedules, unless the ship is identified on the cover it is very difficult to determine what vessel carried a particular letter. The Bermuda Royal Gazette recorded the appropriate shipping news often permitting the ship's identification
Ship Letters
1815 (28 Mar.) entire letter "Per Favour of Mr. Hezekiah Frith" to Philadelphia (14.4) and then to New York, rated "37½"c. at the War of 1812 double rate for 90-150 miles of 18¾c. and showing Philadelphia transit datestamp on face; some separations at folds, otherwise clean and attractive

Note: Hezekiah Frith was one of the richest men in Bermuda, having made his fortune by privateering

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