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Auction: 17038 - Newfoundland, the Professor Albert Hamilton Collection
Lot: 13

Newfoundland
Early Letters and Handstamps
1819 (9 June) entire letter from C.A. Campbell at St. John's to Barcaldine, near Bonawe, Ayrshire, Scotland, and redirected to Glasgow, rated "1/6" (deleted) and "2/3", showing step-type "greenock/shipletter", Bonawe d.s. and two Glasgow c.d.s. (27.6 and 5.7); transcript of letter which includes "This is by no means a pleasant quarter, provisions are scarce such as beef, mutton and poultry" and comments on the possibility of promotion in the 74th. Regiment . Photo

provenance:
Robert Pratt, March 1991
Allan Steinhart, May 2005

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Sold for
£480