U.S. and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
September 20-21, 2016

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Lot #483
BRITISH COMMONWEALTH CANADIAN TERRITORY - Newfoundland
1834 (21 Aug) missionary letter from Hoffenthal (today Hopedale), Labrador, privately carried to Germany, and placed into the mails at Herrnhuth, Saxony, then forwarded via the Prussia Post to St. Petersburg, Russia, redirected to Sarepta, with a myriad of debit markings and charged 363 rubles on arrival. A remarkable and fascinating letter (Zacharias Glitsch writes in German to his brother in Sarepta, Russia. He talks about fur trade, his dealings with the Eskimos, etc.), early usage from the Moravian mission and trading post in Labrador
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