1779-1977 Ephemera and letters, prints and picture postcards (122) including 1779 letter reporting on the loss of the "Lydia"; c.1800 card advertising the Liverpool & Cork Steam Packet ship "Lee"; 1838-41 certificates showing ships have been conducted into the port by Liverpool Pilots; 1804 entire letter from London to Madeira with "POST-PAID-SHIP-LETTER / LONDON" c.d.s, inscribed "P. the Britannia Leary from Liverpool" but endorsed "sailed"; 1822 letters from South America to Manchester endorsed by named ships, posted as inland letters at Liverpool (2); picture postcards of ship wrecks, tugs, pilot boats, ships, views of Liverpool, etc; souvenir advert card from the 1886 Liverpool Shipperies Exhibition; 1913 programme of the Marine display in the Mersey during the opening of the Gladstone Dock by the King and Queen, also various reproduction cards, etc. (c.150).
Opening GBP 220.00
Sold...GBP 300.00
Closed..Oct-26-2022, 23:59:00 EST
Sold For 300
Sale No: 51
Lot No: 365
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Paquebots. 1894-2007 Covers and cards (31) and a front, various Liverpool Paquebot cancels and handstamps, including 1894 cover with G.B 2½d pair each cancelled "LIVERPOOL / U.S PACKET" c.d.s with "PAQUEBOT" below (first year of Paquebot use), 1904 card with Spain 10c cancelled by undated double ring "PAQUEBOT / LIVERPOOL" with Liverpool c.d.s alongside, etc. (32).
