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Auction: 17025 - Bermuda, Crossroads of the Atlantic: A Postal History from 1617 to 1877 - The David Pitts Collection
Lot: 61

(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
1873 (27 Mar.) envelope from New York "p E Barss" to J. Butterfield "Clerk H.M. Council" Bermuda, hand-delivered to and forwarded by Middleton & Co. with small dated handstamp in blue on reverse, manuscript "2" ship fee in blue crayon

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Estimate
£100 to £120