Lot 60112 – Cork – Queenstown: 1853 (12.6) Folded entire from Port Louis, Mauritius addressed to Bordeaux, charged the 8d uniform shipletter fee on landing in Queenstown, no additional postage was charged for transit, showing samll

Cork – Queenstown: 1853 (12.6) Folded entire from Port Louis, Mauritius addressed to Bordeaux, charged the 8d uniform shipletter fee on landing in Queenstown, no additional postage was charged for transit, showing samll snas serif QUEENSTOWN/SHIP LETTER in blue (only in used between 1850 and 1853), with Queenstown cds also in blue alongside, array of transit and arrival mkgs, plus 1852 (28.7) entire from Cork via London to Norway, showing clear strike of the blue oval Mitchell & Seymour, Ship Agents of Queenstown, an attractive and scarce pair