C.G.H. - OVAL "Ship Letter/DEAL" WITH OVAL "SHIP LETTER/CAPE...

Hammer

£110

C.G.H. - OVAL "Ship Letter/DEAL" WITH OVAL "SHIP LETTER/CAPE OF GOOD HOPE" COVER REF. LOST SHIP; 5 May 1813 EL from "Cape Town" to Stirling with fine double-oval "SHIP LETTER/[Crown]/CAPE OF GOOD HOPE" (overstruck by red Edinburgh transit cds) and fine double-oval "Ship Letter/[Crown]/DEAL" on the front as well as a fine large boxed "Addl½" (london?). The contents concern a tartan shipment ordered (by the 93rd Regiment) in early 1812 (!) which has not yet arrived; "...it has probably been lost or taken as the ship on board which it was shipped in Augt. 1812 has never yet reached this Port...". The risks of sea transport continued right through the Napoleonic Wars period. [See WB, p.162.]Cross Reference: CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, MILITARY - NAPOLEONIC WAR, KENT, SHIP LETTERS