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Auction: 22022 - The Graham Booth Collection of West Indies, Transatlantic Mail and British Ship Letters
Lot: 1224

British Guiana
Early Letters and Handstamps
Demerara
1807 (9 Apr.) large part entire letter (some stains) ex the "McCalmont correspondence to Belfast, marked "p Ship Demerary, Ingles, via Liverpool", rated "3/6" (deleted) and "5/-" and showing poor double-lined oval "ship-letter/Crown/liverpool" in red (S.5b); 1810 (20 Feb.) entire letter ex the Sanbach correspondence to Liverpool, marked "per the Blanchard, Capt Hewison", rated "8" and showing double-lined oval "ship-letter/Crown/liverpool" (S.5); 1811 (6 May) entire letter ex Sandbach correspondence to Liverpool, marked "p Antigua Packet", rated "1/-" and showing double-lined oval "ship-letter/Crown/liverpool" (S.5); 1815 (4 Apr.) entire letter ex the Sandbach correspondence to Liverpool, marked "p Ship Higginson", rated "1/6" and showing double-lined oval "ship-letter/Crown/liverpool" in red (S.5b); and 1821 (22 Dec.) entire letter written in Georgetown to Glasgow, rated "1/2" and showing, on reverse, step-type "greenock/ship letter" (S.9), Greenock and arrival datestamps

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Sold for
£350

Starting price
£130