Lot 1420
Danish West Indies, 1819 (Apr.) St. Croix to Aberdeen, Scotland, folded cover bearing "St. Thomas" straightline handstamp, endorsed "packet", red London "May, B 6 M 1819" arrival c.d.s. with manuscript "7/9" triple rating for three times the 1s 2d packet rate (3s 6d) to London plus three times the 1s 4d inland postage (4 sh), "1/2" (1s 2d) framed handstamp for the Scotish toll road tax instituted in 1813 for mail coaches traveling in Scotland, clean and Very Fine.
Estimate $500 - 750
Provenance: Schnell
At the end of the British occupation of the Islands in 1815, the British postal agencies in St. Thomas and St. Croix were closed. The office at St. Thomas was reopened in 1817, and straightline postmarks in black are found from May 1817 to September 1820. The agency was then closed again, and no British marks of St. Thomas are known between late 1820 and January 1843.
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| Realized $450 |
