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Auction: 22022 - The Graham Booth Collection of West Indies, Transatlantic Mail and British Ship Letters
Lot: 1672

Ship Letters of the British Isles
Wales
Holyhead
1820 (20 Dec.) entire letter from Pernambuco, rated "1/5" and showing fair to fine step-type "holyhead/ship letter" (S.2); 1826 (14 Oct.) entire letter from Mexico to London, rated "5/-" and showing good strike of step-type "holyhead/ship letter" (S.3); 1828 entire (some discolouration to face panel) to London, rated "2/4" and showing superb "india letter/holyhead" (Im.1); and 1833 (Mar.) entire letter from New York to Norwich, rated "1/1" and showing Holyhead double-arc d.s. in red used as a Ship Letter mark

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Sold for
£380

Starting price
£80