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Auction: 17025 - Bermuda, Crossroads of the Atlantic: A Postal History from 1617 to 1877 - The David Pitts Collection
Lot: 104

(x) Packet Letters
The Cunard Line, 1833-1886
The last Admiralty packet left Falmouth on 6 June 1840, Thereafter Cunard steamers assumed the transatlantic route under contract to the Admiralty, using Liverpool as their home base. From January 1848, Cunard's transatlantic service altered weekly between Boston and New York, however after July 1848 the New York steamers did not stop at Halifax. There are five different routes
Route 1, May 1840-July 1848, Sail to Halifax
Cunard sailing vessels carried mail between Bermuda and Halifax twice a month though only once a month during the winter
The route was Liverpool-Halifax-Boston-(or New York, Jan.-July 1848)-Halifax-Liverpool by steamer; Halifax-Bermuda-Halifax by sail
1844 (26 July) small entire letter from Pirna, Saxony "via Belgium" and London to Edward Ward of the Royal Engineers at Bermuda, from Liverpool per Cambria to Halifax and per Margaret to Bermuda, variously rated and showing despatch, London (31.7) and Liverpool (1.8) datestamps on face panel, a further London datestamp on reverse; tear on flap and on top of face panel, and minor edge faults though rare with few covers from Germany to Bermuda recorded. Photo


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