380th Auction
16-17 & 20-25 March 2023 in Wiesbaden
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Condition
6Catalogue no.
1828 (2. July.), "PACKET SHIP FABIUS ABRAHAM BELL.....", red three-line cachet (slightly enhanced) on reverse of folded letter from Ireland to Pattonsburg, Virgina, after landing in New York treated as ship letter and charged 2c. plus 18 3/4 cents for inland to Pattonsburg, with further manuscript "forwarded" and charged additional 10 cents, total showing as "10/30", a fine and scarce entire with clear strike of this handstamp. The Bell cachets are registered for the sailing ships Atlantic, Courier, Josephine, and Robert Fulton, the Fabius being very rare and maybe unique
1809, Double weight folded letter from St John to Liverpool, endorsed "to ship Ardent, Cap Bouch", Irish maritime red marking "SKIBBEREEN SHIP. LET." applied on transit, with adjacent rate markings and on the inside flap arrival manuscript "Rec. 21st Jan. 1810", fine and exceptional usage of that postmark on mail from New Brunswick during the Napoleonic period, certificate Wijnants (2022)