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Auction: 22022 - The Graham Booth Collection of West Indies, Transatlantic Mail and British Ship Letters
Lot: 1375

Jamaica
Ship Letter Handstamps
1833 (8 June) entire letter from New York to Raselle Estate, St. Thomas East, Jamaica, rated "1/3" for a double inland letter carried up to 100 miles, showing circular undated "ship letter/jamaica" h.s. (Proud SL4; crossed by filing crease at top) and with Kingston datestamp (5.7) on reverse. Previously unrecorded until appearing in the Swarbrick collection, and only a very few examples now recorded. Photo

Note: Incoming ship letters from America were landed on the north coast and were differently treated to those from Britain that were landed on the south coast, possibly accounting for the rarity of this handstamp.

provenance:
Bob Swarbrick, September 1995
"Dubois", 2020

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