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Auction: 17025 - Bermuda, Crossroads of the Atlantic: A Postal History from 1617 to 1877 - The David Pitts Collection
Lot: 55

(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
1862 (18 Feb.) pink envelope from St. George's "per S.S. Cleopatra" to London, rated "6" in red crayon and showing a good strike of the "st. georges-bermuda/paid" datestamp (P3, Type II with long arcs), the reverse with superb "plymouth/ship.letter" (S9) datestamp (6.3) and arrival datestamp (7.3). A late letter with a non-packet ship identified. Photo

Note: The S.S. "Cleopatra" was a chartered transport vessel carrying the officers and crew of H.M.S. "Conqueror", wrecked at Rum Cay, Bahamas on 12 December 1861, and brought to Bermuda by H.M.S. "Nile"

provenance:
Morris H. Ludington, June 1999

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