Lot Details

faint datestamp on folded letter to Chesterfield, England, manuscript "1/11½" rate for 4½d Canadian inland, 11½d to New York, and 7½d (12½c) freight money fee, red "Montreal L.C. Dec 13 1839" double circle datestamp with matching "Paid" and "18¾" credit, carried by Black Ball Line's Oxford departing New York December 19 and arriving Liverpool January 11, two-line "Liverpool Ship Letter" backstamp, "8" due handstamp for uniform ship fee, very fine, one of two recorded freight money letters from Chambly, ex-Winter