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36295_741
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Record Type:
Auction Catalogues & Private Treaty
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Who Name:
Swarbrick (vendor)
Date:
29 Sep 1995
Number:
Sale: 501
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 Pages: 177 Size: 4 MB
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Title:
Lot 741 THE 1890 MAIL-CART WRECK BETWEEN KINGSTON & ANNOTTO BAY; 18th Feb. 1890 env. (minor faults & stamp washed off but with Kingston red boxed "JAMAICA PAID/22 FE 1890" d.s. instead on the front) from Kingston to New York, with a complete "This Postal Packet was contained in the Mail Bag from Kingston to New York via Port Maria Jamaica, for despatch per S.S. "Bergenseren", which Mail Bag was washed away in the "Haughton River" near Annotto Bay, on the night of Tuesday the 18th instant, and
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Jamaica CRASH & WRECK MAIL
Description:
which was subsequently recovered. FRED. SULLIVAN, Postmaster for Jamaica. General Post Office, 21st Feb. 1890." label on the reverse, tied by v. fine "KINGSTON" squared circles. Very rare; Bob's researches have shown that only 1000 letters & 35 regd. letters for New York were in the crash in which the mules were drowned and from which the driver was saved; the mail was "submerged for nearly 24 hours". Few examples known; spectacular. PHOTO
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Est: £250 Real: £260
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