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Military Mai                                                                                  Gibraltar

          Prior to  18   mail service was b  pri  ate ship or the Gibraltar Packet Service, with limited service.  Its rate was  1/9 via
          Falmouth or  1 to London.   eekl  packet from Falmouth began in 1837, and rates in 1840 ~.  ere  1/- via Falmouth.









                                                                                                           ESPAGNE
     ..,   ~ u:npaid                                                                                    PA R .BA YONNE
                                                                                                        Fre  h routing mark:
                                                                                                            ·  via Ba  onne




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       1824-1  39





                                                Gibraltar, .2.1 Janua:ry,1827-38 da
                         n:paid  hip Letter to Glasgo  . Manuscrip  rated   an  handstamped: ~mail   for rate
                       1/9 Gtoraltar  pain  ·a  B  onne and Paris to Fal.mou:th and 11  and %<l mail tax inlan   6
                       Febru.ary, London, 28 Febru.ary  arrival.










                1/- unpaid
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                                            ,
                                            /
                                                                                                       Gibraltar lined
                                                                                                       arc handstamp
                                                                                                         1834-1848









                                                   Gibraltar, 21March,1841-17 days

                              Unpaid letter to Edinburgh, 6 April London transit. 7 April Edinburgh received.
                              Letter rate 1/- and not eligible for Soldier's Concessionary Rate as sent by an officer.
                                       Contents related to military service, /etter from a military ojjicer.


         Gibraltar was strategic to British military and its principal economic mainstay was servicing visiting steamships through coaling.
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