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red datestamp with matching straightline "Ship" and manuscript "22" rate on folded letter from Saint-Pierre, Martinique to Philadelphia, very fine
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partial red datestamp with matching straightline "Ship" and manuscript "20½" rate on folded letter datelined "March 29, 1831, U.S.S. Constellation, Port Mahon [Menorca]", addressed to Morrisville, Pennsylvania, straightline "Quarantine" handstamp, very fine
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red datestamp with matching straightline "Ship" and Manuscript "20 3/4" rate on folded letter to New York City datelined Smyrna, Turkey, endorsed "E. Madora Capt Fletcher" very fine
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red ribbon "Ship 6" rate handstamp on incoming folded letter from Batavia, Indonesia, endorsed "overland Steamer to America" and addressed "Care of the Baring Brothers & Co., London", London February 1 Maltese cross and Liverpool transit, creases, fine, ex-White
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red datestamp with matching "7" rate on January 14, 1848 folded letter from Port Mahon, Menorca to Schenectady, New York, endorsed "Via Angleterre by the Liverpool & Boston line of Steamers", Marseilles and Liverpool transits, very fine
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red datestamp with matching "7" rate handstamp on cover from Louvain, Belgium to Brooklyn, New York, April 25 origination postmark and boxed "PD", endorsed "Par Liverpool", London and Liverpool transits, carried by Cunard's Britannia, very fine
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red datestamp with matching "Ship" and "7" markings on folded letter to West Bloomfield, New Jersey, datelined "Barque Ionia" by a missionary sailing to Smyrna, Turkey, written on board in Boston Harbor and carried back to port by pilot, very fine, interesting contents
integral rate datestamp with matching "Ship" and "5" handstamps on cover from Faial, Azores to Chelsea, Massachusetts, original enclosure, barely reduced at right, very fine and choice, the only recorded example of this datestamp
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red datestamp with black "Ship" and "5" handstamps on cover from Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadalupe to Portland, Maine, endorsed "Per Brigt. Zouave, Capt. Melanson", fine, interesting letter discussing the Civil War
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arced "Ship 4" handstamp plus manuscript "4" on incoming cover from Paramaribo, Suriname, endorsed "Per Brig Elsey", original enclosure, fine, ex-Starnes
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integral rate datestamp on incoming cover from the Azores to Plymouth, Massachusetts, endorsed "Barque Kate Williams", very fine and unusual origin
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integral rate datestamp on 5c Blue entire, originally from New Bedford, Massachusetts with December 27, 1876 postmark, addressed to Faial in the Azroes, endorsed "Via England" and with London transit, Lisbon backstamps, returned to New Bedford via Boston where this rare ship datestamp was applied, very fine, this is the only reported use of this handstamp in Blake