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Auction: 17025 - Bermuda, Crossroads of the Atlantic: A Postal History from 1617 to 1877 - The David Pitts Collection
Lot: 179

(x) Packet Letters
Other Carriers In Conjunction With Cunard
Cunard operated throughout the period from 1827-1877 and beyond. There were two major changes in Cunard's relationship with other carriers. The first was the RMSP's abandonment of her British stops after 1850. The other was Cunard's loss of her transatlantic contract to Inman in 1868. These changes made the Cunard Bermuda-Halifax connection more important
The following section illustrates the inter-relationships between Cunard, RMSP and other lines
Cunard and Private Vessels
1871 (3 June) envelope from St. George's to New York, per Delta to Halifax, having just missed the New York steamer, and thence per private vessel to Newport, rated "4" in red crayon (1d. to Bermuda and 4d. to the U.S.) and incorrectly "10" as a steamship rate and not private ship, bearing 1865 1d. rose-red and wing-margin 2d. dull blue (2, one with small corner fault) twice cancelled "B/1 (K2) and with despatch datestamp (P5) alongside, Boston datestamp (16.6) below the adhesives. Most attractive and one of only two recorded prepaid covers with stamps for the 5d. rate. Photo

Note: A Packet mail to the U.S.A. was available by the Cunard Steamer on the Halifax-Bermuda-St. Thomas route, which ran every four weeks. The service was rarely used after 1868 when the direct New York-Bermuda service started. The cover just missed the New York steamer

provenance:
Morris H. Ludington, June 1999

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