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Auction: 25010 - The Michael Medlicott Collection of Trinidad and Tobago
Lot: 1

Trinidad
Early Letters and Handstamps
1804 entire, dated on flap 3 April in Berbice, British Guiana, to Inverness, rated "1/10", "2/2" (both deleted) and "2/5", showing a superb strike of the "trinidad" horse-shoe datestamp for 26 April, arrival c.d.s. (31.7) also on face with London transit d.s. (28.7) on reverse. One of the finest of the few recorded examples of this rare datestamp which was probably destroyed in the disastrous four at Port of Spain on 24 March 1808 in which "no public buildings were saved" and 4,500 persons were made homeless. Photo

Note: This letter was carried by the Leeward Islands Packet "Lady Arabella" which arrived in Falmouth on 25 July 1804.

provenance:
"Scarborough", November 2008

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Estimate
£2,500 to £3,000

Starting price
£2000