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Auction: 17025 - Bermuda, Crossroads of the Atlantic: A Postal History from 1617 to 1877 - The David Pitts Collection
Lot: 65

(x) Ship Letters
Because private ships did not maintain regular schedules, unless the ship is identified on the cover it is very difficult to determine what vessel carried a particular letter. The Bermuda Royal Gazette recorded the appropriate shipping news often permitting the ship's identification
Forwarding Agents
Six agents operated in Bermuda. Between them there are only ten recorded examples
1845 (29 Aug.) entire letter from Alexandria, Va. marked "via New York" and "care Messrs. Middleton & Co. New York", thence by Brigantine Princess Royal to William Astwood at Hamilton, showing despatch datestamp and "5" rate handstamp (U.S. internal postage) and showing a fine strike of the "bermuda/ship letter" handstamp (S1) in red with only thirteen examples recorded by Forand and Freeland. Photo

provenance:
Morris H. Ludington, June 1999

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