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Auction: 22022 - The Graham Booth Collection of West Indies, Transatlantic Mail and British Ship Letters
Lot: 1234

British Guiana
Early Letters and Handstamps
Demerara
1840 (31 Oct.) entire letter (two heavy vertical filing creases) ex the Sandbach correspondence to Liverpool, showing handstruck "8" with unframed "liverpool/ship letter" on reverse; 1840 (24 Nov.) entire letter to London, rated "8" and showing step-type "hastings/ship letter" (S.3) on reverse; 1840 (31 Oct.) entire letter to Bath, marked "Paid 1/-" in red and showing, on reverse across join, seriffed "demerara" double-arc d.s. (D1); 1847 (6 Sept.) entire letter ex the Sandbach correspondence to Liverpool, marked "p Candidate", rated "8" and showing unframed "margate/ship-lre" (S.4); 1854-57 entire letters (7) ex the Sandbach correspondence to Liverpool, variously rated and all showing Demerara double-arc d.s (D2) on reverse; and 1860 entire letters (3) from the same correspondence to Liverpool, variously rated and showing Demerara c.d.s. (D5) on reverse

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£450

Starting price
£200