ISSUE 175 - July 4, 2025 - Stamp News Online Magazine
The Stamp Specialist:
Trans-Atlantic Mails
by Major F. W. Staff
(From The Stamp Specialist Emerald Book, published in 1946, with images added)
By the Act of Queen Anne 1710, the rate of postage for a single letter from London to New York was settled at 1/- the 1/2 ounce (2/- double and so on) and the prevailing inland rates were added in the case of letters posted beyond London. This was the first official Post Office rate between England and North America.
On letters from America (see page 1) a similar arrangement was . . .
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