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Auction: 17025 - Bermuda, Crossroads of the Atlantic: A Postal History from 1617 to 1877 - The David Pitts Collection
Lot: 10

(x) Internal Mail
On May 20, 1812 an official Post Office was established on the island for the first time. There were three official rate structures during the period
5d. Rate Period, 1812-42: 5d. per sheet until October 1817, 5d. for the first two sheets and 5d. for each additional sheet from 1818 until 1835, and then 5d. up to three sheets. Maximum was 1/3d. at all times
1839 (20 Nov.) entire letter from Norfolk, Virginia, care of Middleton & Co., New York to "Heron Bay Bermuda", a small town north of Southampton, rated "25" U.S. internal and "5" Bermuda internal and showing despatch datestamp, two "paid" handstamps and with forwarding agents cachet in reverse, all in red. Mail to small towns on the island is very uncommon. Photo

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Estimate
£300 to £400