NEW SOUTH WALES/TASMANIA - FIRST FLEETER (?) MARINE's + CONV...

Hammer

£190

NEW SOUTH WALES/TASMANIA - FIRST FLEETER (?) MARINE's + CONVICT PRISON ESCORT SHIP COVERS; Mar./Aug. 1807 pair of ELs from "BATH/GATE" (mainly fine encircled marks) in Scotland to Cox & Co. in London written & signed by RM (?) "Capt. Wm. Shairp" (concerning large sums of money and the sale of estates) who is reputed to have been on the transport 'Alexander' in the 1787 First Fleet to Australia with 34 other Marines as escorts with the first convicts sent to Australia; plus 1838 EL from Portsmouth (cds) to London from a Marine on "Ship Gilmore" about to sail with convicts to Tasmania. Unusual trio. (3 covers) Cross Reference: SCOTLAND, HAMPSHIRE