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Auction: 22022 - The Graham Booth Collection of West Indies, Transatlantic Mail and British Ship Letters
Lot: 1179

Bermuda
Packet Letters
The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, 1842-50
1842 (15 Jan.) entire letter from London to Messrs. Astwood and Burgess, from Falmouth "Via West Indies p Royal Mail Steamer Dee", per Clyde to St. Thomas and per Thames to Bermuda, rated "1/-" (postage) and "1/3" (postage + 3d. internal = 1/3d. due) and with despatch datestamp on reverse. A rare cover carried on the first trip to Bermuda by RMSP. Photo

provenance
:
David Pitts, October 2017

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£130