Lot 41277 - Montserrat 1777 cover to Madeira

Montserrat 1777 cover to Madeira
Montserrat 1777 cover to Madeira
Montserrat 1777 cover to Madeira
Montserrat 1777 cover to Madeira



Lot 41277 - Montserrat 1777 cover to Madeira

Montserrat
Dear collector, we present you lot 41277 which you can now add to your Montserrat collection. If you have any questions about our lots, please feel free to contact us here.
Estimate
300 - 500 GBP
Auction date
Tue 8 Dec 2026 at 10:00 (Europe/Zurich)
23d 6h 54m 14s before bidding ends

Description

1777 Entire sent by private ship to a wine merchant in Madeira, datelined internally at end of message “Montserrat / July 13th 1777”, with message talking about receiving butts of wine from St. Kitts (“the expense is so high that we must not have them sent that way again”) and alternate routes through Jamaica or Antigua (“That island being to the windward of this archipelago can run down with it in five or six hours. They are sometimes 2 or 3 days in coming from St. Kitts”), with “bishop” arrival ds and “PORTSMOUTH /SHIP-LRE” hs, ms “10” rate, fine.

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