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Auction Catalogues & Private Treaty
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Who Name:
Swarbrick (vendor)
Date:
29 Sep 1995
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Sale: 501
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Lot 45 THE PREVIOUSLY UNRECORDED THREE-LINE "PORT/MORANT/HARBOUR" MARKING ON A LETTER FROM SCOTLAND; 1st Sept. 1774 EL from "Bogside" (presumably the Scottish village near Alloa in Perthshire; the writer mentions his having taken a house in Edinburgh for the winter) to "John Grant Esq., Spanish Town, Jamaica. p. Clarendon, Brankston". The writer concludes; "I send this under cover to our friend Mr. Grant, as opportunity occurs rarely from these northern regions." (Presumably the Mr. Grant in
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Jamaica OTHER TOWNS' UNDATED P.O. NAMESTAMPS
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question was in London and able to hand this letter to a ship's captain; the latter eventually landed at Port Morant and posted it there.) There is no charge marking, but there is a mostly very fine large "PORT/MORANT/HARBOUR" (43 x 22 mm) mark on the reverse. Foster (p.71) mentions that Port Morant P.O. was open from at least 1773, but he recorded no mark from this office before 1806. No other 3-line namestamps have been recorded from Jamaica. Spectacular and an important Jamaica Exhibition pie
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