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Auction: 20041 - The "Dubois" Collection of Jamaica Postal History and Stamps - Part I - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 90

Forwarding Agents Letters
1743 entire letter to La Rochelle, France, sent by a member of the crew of a French trading vessel which was apprehended by H.M.S. York whilst trying to run the British blockade of the Spanish held port of Carthagena; forwarded on 19 October by Thomas Thomarssili, having been carried to London by private ship; escorted back to Jamaica, he wrote to his brother, whilst waiting for the local magistrate to pronounce the ship "free of contraband", showing two "d'angleterre" handstamps and apparent "17" (decimes) manuscript rate mark on face, eventually forwarded in London. Photo

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Estimate
£1,000 to £1,200

Starting price
£800