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Auction: 20035 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 3034

(x) The Toulmin Packet Service
Australia to U.K.
Voyage 22
1847 (9 Sept.) entire from Bathurst to London, carried by the “Tory”, rated “1/-“, showing legible framed “paid at/bathurst” and "paid ship letter/sydney” oval d.s. (13.9) in red with, on reverse, “bathurst/new s. wales” oval d.s. and red arrival c.d.s. (1.3.48)

Note: The “Tory” left Sydney on 3 October with the mails landed at Falmouth and arriving in London on 1 March 1848, 150 days passage.
The “Tory” made three trips to Australia carrying convicts. On the second of these, under the command of Captain Young, she arrived at Norfolk Island on 18 March 1847 with 195 male convicts. She then proceeded to Hobart, where she arrived on 19 June, and eventually Sydney on 16 July. She sailed from Sydney on 3 October for London, and arrived off Falmouth on 28 February, after a passage of 148 days, via St. Helena

provenance:
Brian Peace, July 2009

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