Bidspirit auction | Postal history. Pre-philately. Sea mail.

Postal history. Pre-philately. Sea mail. Letter sent from Paris on 7.10.1837, to Lisbon, via London and Southampton. In London, where it passed on 12.10, he paid the postage of a SHIP LETTER, 2/ to Portugal, being sent from Southampton by the steamer “Chieftain”. It was marked C. Est. of N, in blue and postage of 160., arriving on 18.10.