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Auction: 17025 - Bermuda, Crossroads of the Atlantic: A Postal History from 1617 to 1877 - The David Pitts Collection
Lot: 6

(x) Forerunner Period
There was no formal postal service to Bermuda prior to 1806
1796 (4 May) double entire letter to Scotland carried on the Falmouth-New York Packet, rated 1/- packet rate = 1/- to London 7d. to Glasgow = 2/7d. and showing, on reverse across join, a good strike of the "Halifax N-S./May 1795" boxed handstamp, rare with fewer than six strikes recorded, overstruck by London datestamp and with circular-framed "glas/gow" handstamp on face. The only known cover from Bermuda by the Falmouth packet prior to the establishment of a regular service in 1806. Photo

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