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Ship Letters Because private ships did not maintain regular schedules, unless the ship is identifie
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(x) Ship Letters
Because private ships did not maintain regular schedules, unless the ship is identified on the cover it is very difficult to determine what vessel carried a particular letter. The Bermuda Royal Gazette recorded the appropriate shipping news often permitting the ship's identification
Ship Letters
1822 (4 Apr.) entire letter "p Brig Douglas & Belfast" from Thomas Driver to his mother in London, rated "1/3" (deleted) and twice "2/6" and showing framed "belfast/ship letter" handstamp (S4), the reverse with a fine initialled black wax seal and showing faint "bermuda" fleuron datestamp (PM1 with "carrots" 10mm. long) in red across join, Dublin (23.5) and London (25.3) datestamps, all slightly overlapping. A unique routing of mail to London via Belfast, and the earliest recorded date of use of the PM1 datestamp, two months earlier than recorded by Ludington. Photo
Note: Thomas Driver was the first significant painter to work in Bermuda with about five letters known from him
Illustrated on page 7 of "Bermuda Mails to 1865" by Forand and Freeland
Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Because private ships did not maintain regular schedules, unless the ship is identified on the cover it is very difficult to determine what vessel carried a particular letter. The Bermuda Royal Gazette recorded the appropriate shipping news often permitting the ship's identification
Ship Letters
1822 (4 Apr.) entire letter "p Brig Douglas & Belfast" from Thomas Driver to his mother in London, rated "1/3" (deleted) and twice "2/6" and showing framed "belfast/ship letter" handstamp (S4), the reverse with a fine initialled black wax seal and showing faint "bermuda" fleuron datestamp (PM1 with "carrots" 10mm. long) in red across join, Dublin (23.5) and London (25.3) datestamps, all slightly overlapping. A unique routing of mail to London via Belfast, and the earliest recorded date of use of the PM1 datestamp, two months earlier than recorded by Ludington. Photo
Note: Thomas Driver was the first significant painter to work in Bermuda with about five letters known from him
Illustrated on page 7 of "Bermuda Mails to 1865" by Forand and Freeland
Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
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(x) Ship Letters
Because private ships did not maintain regular schedules, unless the ship is identified on the cover it is very difficult to determine what vessel carried a particular letter. The Bermuda Royal Gazette recorded the appropriate shipping news often permitting the ship's identification
Ship Letters
1822 (4 Apr.) entire letter "p Brig Douglas & Belfast" from Thomas Driver to his mother in London, rated "1/3" (deleted) and twice "2/6" and showing framed "belfast/ship letter" handstamp (S4), the reverse with a fine initialled black wax seal and showing faint "bermuda" fleuron datestamp (PM1 with "carrots" 10mm. long) in red across join, Dublin (23.5) and London (25.3) datestamps, all slightly overlapping. A unique routing of mail to London via Belfast, and the earliest recorded date of use of the PM1 datestamp, two months earlier than recorded by Ludington. Photo
Note: Thomas Driver was the first significant painter to work in Bermuda with about five letters known from him
Illustrated on page 7 of "Bermuda Mails to 1865" by Forand and Freeland
Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Because private ships did not maintain regular schedules, unless the ship is identified on the cover it is very difficult to determine what vessel carried a particular letter. The Bermuda Royal Gazette recorded the appropriate shipping news often permitting the ship's identification
Ship Letters
1822 (4 Apr.) entire letter "p Brig Douglas & Belfast" from Thomas Driver to his mother in London, rated "1/3" (deleted) and twice "2/6" and showing framed "belfast/ship letter" handstamp (S4), the reverse with a fine initialled black wax seal and showing faint "bermuda" fleuron datestamp (PM1 with "carrots" 10mm. long) in red across join, Dublin (23.5) and London (25.3) datestamps, all slightly overlapping. A unique routing of mail to London via Belfast, and the earliest recorded date of use of the PM1 datestamp, two months earlier than recorded by Ludington. Photo
Note: Thomas Driver was the first significant painter to work in Bermuda with about five letters known from him
Illustrated on page 7 of "Bermuda Mails to 1865" by Forand and Freeland
Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
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