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Auction: 18010 - British North America, The David Pitts Collection
Lot: 108

(x) Prince Edward Island
Early Letters and Handstamp
Mail from Great Britain
1802 (2 Oct.) entire letter ex the Douglas correspondence from Edinburgh to the Comptroller of Customs "Prince Edward Island, Gulf of St. Lawrence", marked "Duplicate" and carried by a merchant vessel with no markings or charges applied

Note: The use of "Duplicate" letters was necessary owing to the continuing loss of shipping brought about by French raiders operating out of New York and Chesapeake

provenance:
Dr. R.V.C. Carr, April 1999
Alan Griffiths, April 2012

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Estimate
£100 to £120