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Sale 83: Gems of Philately

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United States Postal History

Lot 49    

1868 (Aug. 1) Belize, British Honduras to Pocasset, Mass. via New Orleans, clear strike of red British Post Office "Belize, Paid, AU 1, 68" cds and red crayon "4" pence rating on all-over gray shaded ad cover of E.R. Poole, Commissioner Merchant, New Orleans, "Agent for the Charleston & Savannah Line of Packets", carried by Steamship Trade Wind direct from Belize to New Orleans arriving Aug. 7th, entered U.S. mails with "New Orleans La., Aug 8" duplex and matching sharp "Steamship 10" circular due handstamp as loose incoming steamship letter; reduced slightly at right, Very Fine and attractive.
Estimate    $2,000 - 3,000.

A RARE INCOMING STEAMSHIP COVER CARRIED BY DIRECT STEAMSHIP PACKET "TRADE WIND" FROM BELIZE TO NEW ORLEANS.

The Steamship "Trade Wind" operated packet service between New Orleans and British Honduras for about two years, from May 1867 to Sept. 24th 1869 when she sank off the coast of Mississippi. She was owned by Spofford & Tiletson of Charleston S.C., a partnership formed by Paul N. Spofford and Thomas Tileston in 1819 as commission agents, later becoming agents for a line of sloops operating New York-Boston and then charterers and finally owners, being involved in the first two coastwise steamships "Southerner" and "Northerner" as part of the New York and Charleston Steam Ship Line that operated from 1848 to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. This route was initially listed as Contract 3197 with weekly service carrying the great Southern mail. They started a Liverpool Line in 1852 and up until 1860 they had a mail contract to Charleston, Savannah, Key West and Havana.

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