Auction: 17038 - Newfoundland, the Professor Albert Hamilton Collection
Lot: 12
Newfoundland
Early Letters and Handstamps
1818 (16 Sept.) and 1819 (27 Sept.) entire letters ex the "Huth" correspondence from St. John's to London, rated "1/9" and "3/10" and showing fair step-type "whitehaven/ship letter" (Robertson S2, some 21 years earlier than recorded by him) and unframed "cowes/ship lre" respectively; latter with arrival datestamp (19.11) on reverse
provenance:
Allan Steinhart, May 2005
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