LONDON PAQUEBOT 1894

London paquebot mark on cover from Bahia

 

Posted on board the Pacific Steam Navigation Line's S.S.ORCOMA from Bahia on 18th January to London, where it received a paquebot cancel dated 6th February, 1894. This is probably one of the earliest known paquebot covers.
Tabeart type PAQ.1a (Hosking fig 66).
Reference: Robertson Revisited, Colin Tabeart, James Bendon, Limassol, 1997

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