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Auction: 5011 - Stamps & Covers of the World
Lot: 706

Crime and Punishment Punishment Transportation 1824 (8 Oct.) entire letter from a prison chaplain, Rev. Hassall, at Port Macquarie, N.S.W. (this isolated penal colony was reserved for the most dangerous convicts - ´we are amongst prisoners doubly or trebly convicted´) to Wales; 1834 (Feb.) entire letter from a vicar in Launceston to a woman in England informing her that her convict brother had died, the reverse with red ´india letter/swanage´ and black ´swanage/ship letter´ handstamps; neatly written-up and illustrated. Photo for the second item Estimate £ 180-220

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