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Auction: 17025 - Bermuda, Crossroads of the Atlantic: A Postal History from 1617 to 1877 - The David Pitts Collection
Lot: 59

(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
1866 (14 May) "Consignee" entire letter from London "p Minnie Ha Ha" to Thomas Ewing at St. George's, showing fine "bermuda/ship letter" (S1) in black and with "st. georges/bermuda" PM5 arrival datestamp (22.5) on reverse; crease and a few worm holes clear of the handstamp. Exceptionally rare with only four examples of the Ship Letter handstamp in black recorded by Forand and Freeland. Photo

provenance:
Sir Henry Tucker, October 1978
Morris H. Ludington, June 1999

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£3,200