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13 covers with stamps mostly paying forwarding fees, including US 1c and 2c stamps on GB postal cards, US 2c Banknote on incoming cover with strip of three GB 1p, Canada 3c Small Queen on incoming cover from Edinburgh, and more, generally fine to very fine

32 items mounted on exhibit pages, many better throughout including 1840 London to Bermuda by Skylark and Velocity, 1842 London to Bermuda by Britannia and Margaret re-rated to "1/3" to include inland (the last time such a charge was made on British packet mail), Barbados to Bermuda by RMSP Clyde and Curlew, 1856 Turks Islands to Bermuda by Merlin, and 1866 London to Bermuda sent unpaid by Cuba and Alpha, generally very fine, a rare and interesting group sure to please the specialist

approximately 200 covers, many still on their original dealer cards or fragments of exhibit pages (with others not written up at all), a huge variety of material ranging from throughout the 19th Century (and early 20th), we note (in no particular order): 1829 London to Boston printed circular carried on Jewel Line's Amethyst, 1864 England to Canada with block of three 2p Blue with "Insufficiently Prepaid" handstamp, 1873 London to San Francisco with 6p Gray, 1822 Paris to Vermont carried by Black Ball's Amity, 1896 New York to Switzerland with type F supplementary mail cancel, 1827 Paris to New York by Second Line's Queen Mab, 1893 postal card to Germany with type F supplementary mail cancel, 1827 Liverpool to Boston circular by Jewel Line's Topaz, 1838 London to Philadelphia by Red Swallowtail's Ontario (departure delayed due to frozen Thames), 1837 Vera Cruz to London via New Orleans and New York, 1847 Mexico City to London via New Orleans and Boston, 1848 "Forwarded by Harnden & Co. Boston" oval on folded letter to Rome, 1838 Liverpool to Boston on maiden voyage of Black Ball's Cambridge, 1855 London to San Francisco, 1845 New York to London with superb "New-York 5 Paid Aug 15" datestamp, 1847 New York to Edinburgh with manuscript "Found open when received at P.O. L'pool and resealed", and several Gold Rush-era covers from San Francisco to London and France, generally fine to very fine, certainly many more interesting items to be uncovered by a close inspection

two items, first "Bath Me. Sep 2" datestamp with matching straightline "Ship" and manuscript "12" rate on August 6, 1844 folded lettersheet to Portland, Maine; second "Bath Me. Apr 30" datestamp with matching straightline "Ship" and manuscript "7" rate on April 6, 1846 folded letter from Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe to Portland, Maine, endorsed "Care of the Longfellow", very fine pair

double circle datestamp with straightline "Ship" and circled "Due 2" handstamps on cover from the U.S.S. Kearsarge at Faial in the Azores to Beverly, Massachusetts, 3c Rose (65) with black grid, slightly reduced at right, otherwise very fine