Official Mail. 1796 (17 July) entire letter "On His Majesys Service" to Commodore Duckworth "on board His Majestys ship Levianthan, St. Domingo"; a request for payment of £300 for the retrieval of guns lost on the ship "Lark" sunk in the Morant Keys. The earliest recorded Jamaica O.H.M.S. letter. Photoprovenance: . Sissons, December 1982 (Image1)

Est. £250-300

Official Mail. 1857 (9 Sept.) "O.H.M.S." envelope from the Army Pay Office at Kingston to Lieut. Jones, Commanding No. 8 Company, 2nd. West Indian Regiment at Port Royal and marked "Mil Post", turned and addressed to England, unusually paid 6d. in cash and with manuscript explanation "I find I am short of envelopes & it is two miles to Kingston so I have turned an old one", backstamped at London and Leicester. Highly unusual (Image1)

Est. £150-200