For Melbourne, Australia, carrying the United States mails, the magnificent clipper ship “Mindoro”, 103 tons register … Boston, May 14, 1873

A$750 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Reynolds, Commander, will succeed ship Bengal, and having the larger part of her cargo room engaged, will have prompt despatch, loading at India Wharf For freight apply to Henry W. Peabody Co., no. 41 India Wharf. Messrs. Newell Co., Agents at Melbourne. Boston, Massachusetts : Batchelder Wood, 1873. Clipper card, 165 x 105 mm, lithograph-printed recto only in carmine, azure, and gold on white enamel card; at the head is a vignette illustration with the Henry W. Peabody Co. Australian Line house flag, flanked by the United States and Australian coats of arms; fine condition. Scarce and attractive clipper card advertising a sailing of the Mindoro , an Australian Line ship, from Boston to Melbourne in June 1873. She arrived in Hobson s Bay, Melbourne on 5 November 1873 ( The Australasian , 8 November 1873): ARRIVED NOV 5. Mindoro, American ship, S. P. Bray, jun., from Boston 25th June. No passengers. Newell and Co., agents.

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