£120 - £150
1849-81 Covers to naval ships comprising 1849 stampless cover from Worcester to "Charles Sidebottom (late of H.M.S Mutine), H.M.S Ardent, Naples", much redirected, various British and Sardinian handstamps including large "SCARTO"; 1860 cover from Swansea to "Commander W. Cecil de Vere, H.M.S Agamemnon, Naples" with 1d + 4d + 6d paying the 11d rate via Marseille; and 1881 cover from Bromley to "Commander A.A.C Parr, H.M.S Inconstant, Cape of Good Hope" franked 6d, the "Inconstant" diverted from the Falkland Islands to the Cape due to the First Boer War arriving after hostilities had ended. (3).
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