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Auction: 19045 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 486

Gibraltar
Early Letters
1772 (3 Feb.) entire letter written from "Le Vaisseau de Guerre la Princesse Wilhelmine Caroline au Rade de Gibraltar" to "a Son Excellence Monsieur de Cornwallis Lieutenant General de la Majesté Roi D'Angleterre, et Gouverneur la Cittadelle de Gibraltar", the contents regarding a vessel which grounded on the way to Gibraltar, the Captain requesting the Governor of Gibraltar to allow them to make repairs and to store their gunpowder in the nearest magazine; recipient's endorsement "Danish Captain Billy" inside. Photo

provenance:
Spink auction, April 2010

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Sold for
£500

Starting price
£500