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Auction: 20035 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 3001

(x) The Toulmin Packet Service
U.K. to Australia
Voyage 4
1844 (25 Apr.) entire letter from Northampton to Sydney, carried by the “Meg Merrilies”, marked “Ship Letter” (deleted), showing London Paid transit d.s. (27.4) in red and, on reverse, despatch and “ship letter/sydney” arrival datestamp (14.8)

Note: The “Meg Merrilies” left Gravesend on 1 May and arrived in Sydney on 14 August, 105 days passage

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