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Auction: 22022 - The Graham Booth Collection of West Indies, Transatlantic Mail and British Ship Letters
Lot: 1381

Jamaica
Ship Letter Handstamps
1847 (12 Sept.) entire letter from Salem to May Hill P.O. and redirected to Mandeville, rated 12c. postage, 4d. Ship Letter (U.S. contract) plus 6d. Jamaica inland postage for a total of "10" plus a further 4d. for a total of "1/2", showing despatch c.d.s. in red, framed "Port Maria/hip letter" (Proud SL2) and, on reverse, light May Hill and Port Maria (9.11) datestamps and indistinct oval-framed "forwarding agent/....../port maria" h.s. (FAC3), the only example recorded by Foster and possibly to date. Rare with few examples of the Ship Letter recorded. Photo

provenance:
"Dubois", November 2020

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