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BERMUDA POSTAL HISTORY (1620 – 1877)
from the collection of David Pitts, FRPSL
Sailor’s Concessionary letter, dated 1842. Ship Letter carried by the ‘LYDIA’.
IV. The next section deals with Ship Letters. In this section is a 1628 cover, so placed because it specifies
the ship ‘LYDIA’ that carried it from Bermuda to Great Britain. It is virtually unheard of that such specific
reference to the carrying ship be made at this early date.
V. The Packet Letter section traces the extremely complicated development of the packet sytem. There are
many first trips, including the earliest known letter carried on the first, or General Post Office, packet in
1807. A number of rare destinations such as New Zealand and Gibraltar, as well as rare points of origin such
as Ceylon and India, are spread throughout the collection. The single most important cover utilising Bermuda
stamps of the Queen Victoria period is the ‘Moncrieff ’ cover, the only one franked with all three values of the
1875 provisional overprinted stamps.
Cover to New Zealand, a rare destination.
The ‘Moncrieff ’ cover.
BERMUDA POSTAL HISTORY (1620 – 1877)
from the collection of David Pitts, FRPSL
Sailor’s Concessionary letter, dated 1842. Ship Letter carried by the ‘LYDIA’.
IV. The next section deals with Ship Letters. In this section is a 1628 cover, so placed because it specifies
the ship ‘LYDIA’ that carried it from Bermuda to Great Britain. It is virtually unheard of that such specific
reference to the carrying ship be made at this early date.
V. The Packet Letter section traces the extremely complicated development of the packet sytem. There are
many first trips, including the earliest known letter carried on the first, or General Post Office, packet in
1807. A number of rare destinations such as New Zealand and Gibraltar, as well as rare points of origin such
as Ceylon and India, are spread throughout the collection. The single most important cover utilising Bermuda
stamps of the Queen Victoria period is the ‘Moncrieff ’ cover, the only one franked with all three values of the
1875 provisional overprinted stamps.
Cover to New Zealand, a rare destination.
The ‘Moncrieff ’ cover.
