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Auction: 19045 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 542

Gibraltar
Military Mail
1843 (20 July) entire letter to Port Glasgow, headed "From James Risk Seaman on board H.M.S. Malabar", countersigned by Commanding Officer, showing stitch marks at lower left where a penny coin had been secured, showing circular "falmouth/1d/paid" in red and, on reverse, clear arrival d.s. (1.8). Photo

Note: On 26–27 August 1843, Malabar, under the command of Sir George Sartorius, assisted in fighting a fire that destroyed the United States Navy sidewheel frigate USS Missouri at Gibraltar and took aboard about 200 of Missouri's survivors.

provenance:
Gerald Ellott, December 2011

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Sold for
£260

Starting price
£240