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Auction: 17025 - Bermuda, Crossroads of the Atlantic: A Postal History from 1617 to 1877 - The David Pitts Collection
Lot: 52

(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
1838 (4 Aug.) entire letter from Guayama, Puerto Rico "pr Avalanche" via Baltimore and care of Tucker & Lawries in New York to William & Astwood, Bermuda, rated "77" cents and "10d" (5d. internal = 5d. incoming ship rate, both for up to triple weight) and showing Baltimore "ship" handstamp and datestamp (20.8), both in red, the reverse with manuscript "Postage Paid at New York by mail from Baltimore, & forwarded by Your Obet. St. Tucker & Lawries, New York 31st. Aug. 1838". An unusual item showing the rarely seen multiple 5d. Bermuda incoming ship rate. Photo

Note: The apparent discrepancy between the Bermuda triple rate and U.S. quadruple rate is probably due to a rating error in Bermuda. The rate should have been 1/3. After 1835 the internal rate 5d. was for anything up to three sheets

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Estimate
£500 to £600