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Auction: 1017 - The Peter Stone Collection of Great Britain & Postal History
Lot: 166

x Ship Letter Handstamps England Torquay 1849 (8 May) entire letter ex the "Huth" correspondence from New York to London, rated "8" and showing fine, virtually complete, unframed "Torquay/ship letter" (Type S.1; just crossed by light vertical filing crease) in black with, on reverse, superb New York oval forwarding agent´s cachet of Gilpin´s Exchange in red Estimate £ 80-100 provenance: Robson Lowe PHA, November 1975

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