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Auction: 20035 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 3012

(x) The Toulmin Packet Service
U.K. to Australia
Voyage 45
1847 (28 Sept.) entire letter from Upton on Severn to Hobart, carried by the “Alert”, rated “1/-“ and “6”, showing Worcester?, London Paid and “paid ship letter/london" (30.9) datestamps with, on reverse, despatch and Hobart boxed “ship letter” arrival datestamp (1.1.48)

Note: The “Alert” left Gravesend on 1 October and arrived in Sydney on 30 January 1848, 121 days passage. She carried only 153 letters

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Estimate
£400 to £500

Starting price
£320