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Auction: 8029 - Soldiers' Rates of the BE - Gerald Sattin Collection
Lot: 193

India 1843 (20 Apr.) entire letter "From Pt. J. MIlls No. 458 2nd. E.L. Infantry" at St. Thomas´ Mount, Madras to England, countersigned by the Commanding Officer and showing a fine clear strike of the "soldiers & seamans letter/4/by ship" circular h.s. (In. Sol. 7) and, on reverse, despatch, Madras Out Station Ship Letter and other transit d.s. Photo Estimate £ 200-250 Note: An Act of 1 September 1840 altered the rates payable on an unpaid soldier´´s letter carried by ship. Previously only 1d. U.K. Inland Postage was paid plus a Ship Captain´´s gratuity of 2d. Now, besides the gratuity the recipient had to pay the 1d. Inland Postage plus a fine of 1d. for being unpaid

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