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Robertson, Alan W.

The “Ship Letter” Ports of the Thames Estuary

Publisher: privately published, nd (circa 1957)

First edition, 24 loose-leaf pages in card folder, in Very Good condition.

Surveys of the maritime postal history of: Chatham, Colchester, Gravesend, Grays, Harwich, Ipswich, Maldon, Margate, Queenborough, Rochester, Rochford, Sheerness, and Sittingbourne. With 25 half-tone plate illustrations and 51 maritime handstamps in actual size. A scarce work by the great expert in British maritime postal history.

£12.00