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Auction: 22022 - The Graham Booth Collection of West Indies, Transatlantic Mail and British Ship Letters
Lot: 1359

Jamaica
19th Century Overseas Ship Letters
1828 (5 May) entire letter to Edinburgh, rated "2/3" and showing boxed "½" in green; 1829 (14 Feb.) entire letter to Ayr rated "2/6"; 1834 (7 Feb.) entire letter to London rated "7"; 1837 (20 May) entire letter from Black River to London, marked "p Volussia", rated "2/8" and showing, on reverse across join, framed "dover/india letter" struck in error and reversed step-type "ship letter/dover"; 1838 (5 Jan.) entire letter from an officer on H.M.S. Nimrod to London, rated "2/2" and showing framed "packet letter" in red (crossed by heavy vertical filing crease); 1838 (8 Aug.) entire letter to London and re-addressed to Aberdeen, rated "2/2" (deleted) and "1/3" and showing boxed "½"; 1839 (10 Apr.) entire letter to London, marked "Paid 2/6" (deleted), rated "6/6" and showing handstruck "2"; 1839 (6 Feb.) entire letter to Dumfries rated "7/-"; and 1840 (18 Apr.) entire letter from Morants Bay to Aberdeen, marked "1oz", rated "8/-" (deleted) and "4/-"

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