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General Category => Stampless and Postal Stationary => Stampless Mail from 1821 => Topic started by: Martin "Spuff" Spufford on August 18, 2012, 06:46:05 PM

Title: I cant read the names of the ships
Post by: Martin "Spuff" Spufford on August 18, 2012, 06:46:05 PM

 :)
Would someone be so kind as to decipher the name of the ship on which this letter was instructed to be shipped to New York.
See scan top left. "Per..........."
 
thanks ;D
 
Also a second one which I think reads "Iphigenie" going to Bordeaux in 1838 8)
 
spuff

Title: Re: I cant read the names of the ships
Post by: Tad Mackie on August 18, 2012, 08:04:37 PM

Avoretta?  Searching Google brings up a couple of references, 1858 + 1862, 1863, 1864, which seem in the ballpark......

Title: Re: I cant read the names of the ships
Post by: Manuel Iglesias on August 18, 2012, 08:52:37 PM

The one at the bottom: Ephigenia.
Manuel.

Title: Re: I cant read the names of the ships
Post by: Martin "Spuff" Spufford on August 18, 2012, 11:36:53 PM

Thanks Tad.
I will settle on Brig "Avosetta" which plied its trade from venezuela to NY in the 1860s no doubt calling at Veracruz :) .
many thanks.
Thanks manuel for confirming Ephigénie for the French boat (multiple spellings).
spuff