LIVERPOOL PACKET MARK
Single weight letter sent from New York to London via Boston on board Cunard's "Britannia" in
March 1841.
Postage due in GB: 1/- in manuscript comprising packet fee of 1/- including delivery in GB.
Packet Mark: Robinson / Tabeart type P2, in use at Liverpool 1840-1844 for mail carried from Boston by Cunard.
The GB packet fee of 1/- for the first half ounce was introduced 10th January 1840.
Reference:
North Atlantic Mail Sailings 1840-75, W Hubbard and R F Winter.
Robertson Revisited, Colin Tabeart;
United Kingdom Letter Rates, Inland and Overseas, 1635 to 1900, Colin Tabeart;
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