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Auction: 17038 - Newfoundland, the Professor Albert Hamilton Collection
Lot: 1

Newfoundland
Early Letters and Handstamps
1765 (2 Nov.) entire docketed as from Trinity Bay to London, carried by private ship and rated "4" (1d. ships master and 3d. U.K. inland rate), on reverse broken red wax seal, unframed "ring/wood" transit h.s. slightly overstruck by arrival Bishopmark (18.12); two pressed vertical filing folds. Photo

Note: Before the appointment of the first Governor in 1729 each harbour was under the control of the first fishing skipper to enter each year in the spring, providing he had the resources to do so. After 1729 British Naval Officers controlled the harbours. Packet ships, whether sail or steam, were employed by the Government to carry mails to and from places abroad. After the Act of Queen Anne 1710 captains of vessels were bound to deliver letters to the post office the port of arrival. Not to do so, they could incur fines

provenance:
Robert Pratt, March 1991

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£160