Lot 1018
DEMERARA / SHIP LETTER 1860 (9 April) Incoming Ship Mail from Barbados: 1d pale blue (SG 9) tied by barred “1” pmk on folded cover to Demerara, carried by naval vessel HMS “STYX”, taxed 4d, exceptional 2-line postmark DEMERARA / SHIP LETTER alongside, very rare, reverse bears BARBADOS AP 9 1860 despatch cds and DEMERARA AP 12 60 arrival cdsNote: The handstamp DEMERARA / SHIP LETTER (type 13) was applied at Stabroek Packet Office (later called Georgetown). It had been sent to the colony is 1841. Only 5 examples of this postmark is recorded – 4 on letters from St.Vincent and this unique one from Barbados, cert. RPS
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