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WEST INDIES MARITIME MAIL
SHIP LETTERS
An entire addressed to Messrs Huth in London from Panama with two letters, dated 7th August
and 20lh September 1840. It was struck with a very faint New Grenada “Franco En Panama” hand
stamp in red and was subsequently endorsed in manuscript “from Panama” either in the British Post
Office in Panama City or in Kingston. On arrival it received a Kingston Ship Letter mark (SL 4) on
18th October. It was sent unpaid and rated 2/- for the transit to Jamaica before being sent to
England on the packet and charged a double rate of 4/6d (2/1 d x 2 plus 2d inland x 2), the
original charge of 2/- being cancelled
An entire sent unpaid from Peru to Jamaica on 4th April 1879. On arrival in Kinston on the
21st it was struck with SL 10 and charged 5d.
