GB 1847 Pre-Stamp - Dunmore East type S1 Ship Letter 48 (Cream tinted paper)

48 (Cream tinted paper)

Scarce and unusual

but by the scarcity of information available to collectors

Very fine used example printed at Somerset House

lettered JK

GB 1847 Pre-Stamp - Dunmore East type S1 Ship Letter 48 (Cream tinted paper)1847 Maritime Mail. Superb cover from Bahia, Brazil to London via Dunmore East and Dublin. Reverse shows a DUNMORE EAST 83 mileage mark above a very fine Dunmore East scroll SHIP LETTER handstamp (Robertson type S1) with Waterford, Dublin and London datestamps for MR. 25+27. 1847 on reverse. Front shows a very fine red 'DUBLIN Ship Letter' handstamp (Robertson type S5) and a black handstruck '8' rate marking. Superb exhibition quality example of this