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Auction: 22022 - The Graham Booth Collection of West Indies, Transatlantic Mail and British Ship Letters
Lot: 1188

Bermuda
Packet Letters
Cunard and The Quebec & Gulf Ports Steamship Company, 1871-73
1873 (5 Dec.) envelope, complete with long letter, "per S.S. Perit" via New York to Philadelphia, showing "steamship/10" datestamp (11.2) on face with arrival datestamp (11.12) on reverse; clean and attractive with covers to the United States rather than Great Britain by this route scarce. Photo

Note: The contents commence with complaints by the writer about the time the "Perit" has taken to get to Bermuda compared with a Cunard vessel, and continues to comment on the north and south routes with mention of Halifax and St. Thomas.

provenance:
Morris Ludington
David Pitts, October 2017

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Estimate
£150 to £180

Starting price
£80