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Auction: 3012 - Great Britain Postal History & Stamps featuring the Motty Weinstein Collection
Lot: 55

POSTAL HISTORY England, Scotland and Wales 1840 (5 May) entire letter from a recently promoted Warrant Officer with the Commissariat, addressed to Derby, not countersigned but inscribed "Sub Assistant Commst. General" in a different hand at lower-left, the address panel with very fine strike of the rare black circular "soldiers & seamans letter/4/by ship" with red Derby arrival datestamp of 9 December adjacent, the reverse with red framed "moulmein/paid" ("A2" inserted in manuscript) despatch, Madras and Falmouth Ship Letter marks, the letter written from near Moulmein includes interesting comment on the extreme laziness of the locals and his desire to see his home town again (not apparently out of any sentimentality but to see the successful river workings which had removed the threat of frequent flooding in Derby!); a few negligible perimeter faults but not detracting. A most unusually routed letter, going overland all the way to Madras whereas other recorded items of mail from this correspondence went direct by ship from Moulmein itself. Photo Estimate £ 1,000-1,200

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