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Auction: 20041 - The "Dubois" Collection of Jamaica Postal History and Stamps - Part I - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 113

Official Mail
1796 (17 July) entire letter "On His Majesys Service" to Commodore Duckworth "on board His Majestys ship Levianthan, St. Domingo"; a request for payment of £300 for the retrieval of guns lost on the ship "Lark" sunk in the Morant Keys. The earliest recorded Jamaica O.H.M.S. letter. Photo

provenance:
Sissons, December 1982

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Sold for
£520

Starting price
£200