Lot Details

Transatlantic Mail via Forwaring Agents, a neatly-mounted collection of twenty one items, 1830s through 1850s, all to London and carried via a range of ships including the Acadia, Ashburton, Asia, Britannia, Cambria, Columbus, Europa, Garrick, Hibernia, Independence, Niagara, Royal William, Sheridan, and Silas Richards, originating from Baltimore, Havana, Mobile, Matanzas, New Orleans, or New York, and all via forwarding agents, with all but a few showing agent handstamps, including Hudson’s News Room, De Rham, Iselin, & Moore, I.W. Ward, Meyer & Hupeden, Heckschers, Coster & Matfeld, Castello, Meyer & Stucken, F & J Brockelmann, Schmidt & Vogel, H. Bleidorn, and Judson, Andrews & Co, some small faults to covers, but most with fine strikes of agent markings, an attractive and useful group.