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CRASH & WRECK/WALES - FINE 1d BLACK COVER REF. SHIPWRECK AT NEWPORT (PEMBS.) TO R.N.I.L.S.; 23/24 Oct. 1840 EL (some toning - mainly internal - inc. a file-fold at foot of address-panel) sent from "Newport Pembrokeshire" and addressed to "the Royal National Institution for the preservation of Life from Shipwreck" in London with a 1d Black (4 close to huge margins) tied by a lovely red Haverford West MX (part matching cds on flap) alongside a partial framed "No.2" Receiving House mark of Newport (Pembs.; very late usage of the mark used in the 1820s/1830s for H. West Penny Post letters). The contents report a recent fatal shipwreck off Newport and ask for the local seamen who risked their own lives to help the ship's sailors to be recompensed. Exhibition Quality. [Illustrated in BPPP p.562.] Cross Reference: WELSH POSTAL HISTORY, 1840 1d BLACKS, CRASH/WRECK MAIL
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