For Melbourne, succeeding “Oneco” carrying U.S. mails, from T Wharf, the new A1 clipper barque “Escort” … Boston, June 30, 1870

A$750 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

J. B. Nichols, Commander. 636 tons register. This Beautiful Vessel, entirely new For freight or cabin passage, apply to Henry W. Peabody Co., no. 17 Liberty Square. Messrs. Newell Co., Agents at Melbourne. Boston, Massachusetts : Railway Steam Printing Works, 1870. 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 Escort , an Australian Line ship, from Boston to Melbourne in August 1870. She arrived in Hobson s Bay, Melbourne on 14 November 1870 ( The Argus , 15 November 1870): ARRIVED. NOV. 14. Escort, American barque, 636 tons, J. B. Nichols, from Boston August 6. Passengers cabin: Misses Crawford (two), and Mr. O. C. Day, Newell and Co, agents.

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