The Steven Walske Collection of North American Blockade Run Mail continued...

VERY FINE. THE ONLY RECORDED EXAMPLE OF THIS FIRST ROYAL PACKET NAME-OF-SHIP MARKING. AN OUTSTANDING POSTAL HISTORY ARTIFACT.

The French consul was the agent for the Premiere Regie in New York, and prepared departure markings which incorporated ships' names for each sailing from February 1784 to June 1785. Only ten covers are known, showing eight different ship-name departure markings. This is the only recorded example of the "Le Warwick. New York." marking (Image)

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VERY FINE. ONE OF ONLY TWO RECORDED EXAMPLES OF THIS FIRST ROYAL PACKET NAME-OF-SHIP MARKING.

The French consul was the agent for the Premiere Regie in New York, and prepared departure markings which incorporated ships' names for each sailing from February 1784 to June 1785. Only ten covers are known, showing eight different ship-name departure markings. This is one of only two recorded examples of the "Le Courier de New York" marking (both are in black) (Image)

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VERY FINE. ONE OF ONLY TWO RECORDED EXAMPLES OF THIS FIRST ROYAL PACKET NAME-OF-SHIP MARKING AND THE ONLY EXAMPLE STRUCK IN BLACK.

The French consul was the agent for the Premiere Regie in New York, and prepared departure markings which incorporated ships' names for each sailing from February 1784 to June 1785. Only ten covers are known, showing eight different ship-name departure markings. This is one of only two recorded examples of the "Le Courier de l'Amerique" marking (the other in red) (Image)

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VERY FINE. THE ONLY RECORDED EXAMPLE OF THIS FIRST ROYAL PACKET MARKING WITH THE "CAPT. CORNICK" INSCRIPTION. AN IMPORTANT ARTIFACT OF 18TH CENTURY TRANSATLANTIC MAILS.

The French consul was the agent for the Premiere Regie in New York, and prepared departure markings which incorporated ships' names for each sailing from February 1784 to June 1785. Only ten covers are known, showing eight different ship-name departure markings. Two types of markings are known on mail carried by the French Royal Ship Agency's Le Courier de l'Europe on separate trips from New York to L'Orient: the marking offered here with "capt:CORnick", and a similar marking that reads "Le Courier de l'EUROPE/New York*16 juin 1785", offered in lot 2334. Both are unique.

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VERY FINE. THE ONLY RECORDED EXAMPLE OF THE "COURIER DE L'EUROPE" FIRST ROYAL PACKET NAME-OF-SHIP MARKING IN THIS STYLE. THE DESTINATION BEYOND THE BORDERS OF FRANCE IS AN ADDED FEATURE OF DESIRABILITY.

The French consul was the agent for the Premiere Regie in New York, and prepared departure markings which incorporated ships' names for each sailing from February 1784 to June 1785. Only ten covers are known, showing eight different ship-name departure markings. This is the only recorded example of the "Le Courier de l'EUROPE" marking in this style. One other from this ship is known used in 1784, without capital letters in "Europe" and with captain's name in the second line (offered in lot 2333). (Image)

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VERY FINE. THIS IS THE ONLY RECORDED EXAMPLE OF THE "LE COURIER LA MARTINIQUE" FRENCH ROYAL PACKET MARKING, WHICH WAS APPLIED IN NEW YORK ON MAIL CARRIED DURING ONE TRIP BY THE COURIER LA MARTINIQUE. AN IMPORTANT EARLY TRANSATLANTIC COVER.

The French consul was the agent for the Premiere Regie in New York, and prepared departure markings which incorporated ships' names for each sailing from February 1784 to June 1785. Only ten covers are known, showing eight different ship-name departure markings. The Courier La Martinique made two round trips between New York and L'Orient in 1784 and 1785. This is the only recorded cover with the "La Martinique" marking.

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VERY FINE. THE ONLY RECORDED EXAMPLE OF THE "COURIER DE L'ORIENT" FIRST ROYAL PACKET NAME-OF-SHIP MARKING. EVEN MORE DESIRABLE SENT BEYOND THE BORDERS OF FRANCE.

The French consul was the agent for the Premiere Regie in New York, and prepared departure markings which incorporated ships' names for each sailing from February 1784 to June 1785. Only ten covers are known, showing eight different ship-name departure markings. This is the only recorded example of the "Courier de l'Orient marking (Image)

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VERY FINE AND RARE EXAMPLE OF THE "PAQ.NEWYORK" STRAIGHTLINE ON AN EASTBOUND FRENCH ROYAL PACKET COVER FROM THE PREMIERE REGIE. ONLY THREE EXAMPLES ARE RECORDED FROM THIS PREMIERE REGIE PERIOD.

The Premiere Regie agent at New York, St Jean de Crevecoeur, who created the iconic name-of-ship straightlines offered in the previous lots, returned to France on June 17, 1785 on Le Courier de l'Europe. The replacement New York agent, Louis-Guillaume Otto, arrived in New York on Aug. 25, 1785. Perhaps seeking a simpler system for marking letters, he abandoned the dramatic but cumbersome one-time use dated ship-name markings and created a uniform "PAQ.NEWYORK" departure marking, starting with the sailing which left on Sep. 18, 1785. Only three examples are known used during the Premiere Regie period (Image)

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