£240
1842 (Jan 26) Entire letter headed with a fine printed engraving of the Rock of Gibraltar from the sea with several ships and small boats in the foreground, written from "Java Transport, Gibraltar Bay" to Scotland, faint boxed "GIBRALTAR" arc handstamp and arrival backstamps. Written by an army officer en route to Barbados, the letter includes news of the death of an Ensign, who fell down the ship's hatch and broke his skull. An attractive and scarce pictorial lettersheet of Gibraltar.
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