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Auction: 22022 - The Graham Booth Collection of West Indies, Transatlantic Mail and British Ship Letters
Lot: 1239

British Guiana
Early Letters and Handstamps
Berbice
1816 (12 Sept.) entire letter to Inverness, marked "p Thortons", rated "3/6½" and showing step-type "port glasgow/ship letter" (S.5) partly overstruck by red Edinburgh transit d.s.; 1824 (30 July) entire letter ex the McCalmont correspondence to Belfast, rated "2/2" (deleted) and "3/8" and showing Liverpool mileage d.s. on reverse; 1822 (15 Sept.) entire letter to Belfast, marked "pr Amity", rated "3/-" (deleted), "4/-" (deleted) and "5/6" and showing, on reverse, poor reversed step-type "ship letter/swanage" (S.2); 1833 (Dec.) entire letter ex the McCalmont correspondence to Belfast, rated "1/4" (deleted), "2/8" (deleted) and "2/1", showing step-type "deal/ship letter" partly overstruck by "belfast/penny post" with Dublin transit d.s. on reverse

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