202 - MERCHANT NAVY: set of 20 documents.
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Estimate €150 - €200

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MERCHANT NAVY: set of 20 documents. Letter from London to Bordeaux dated 1835, shipment of cotton stockings, towel fabric and table linen, prices of coffee, sugar and cotton. Bill of lading from Marseille for eight crates of false stone, 1836. Letter from Honfleur, news of ships and cargoes, 1839. Bill of lading from Bordeaux for 450 hectolitres, 1839. Letter concerning a lost anchor, Pauillac 1837. Contract drawn up by a captain, from Cannes in 1840. Letter from St Servan in 1843, from Royan in 1844 (salvage of the cargo). Letter from the Maritime Prefect of Lorient in 1848 refusing a proposal for timber. From Le Havre, 1866 (delay due to damage to the steamship), from Marseille, 1867 (proposal for a cargo bound for Rio de Janeiro). Inventory report of a sailor from Audierne who died on board a three-masted ship based in Bordeaux, 1868. Letters from Saint-Nazaire, Le Havre, Nantes and Salin des Pêcheries (1870 to 1873). Bill of lading from Buenos Aires in 1871 (tallow) bound for Bordeaux. Certificate of registration of the steamship Henri IV, built at La Seyne in 1871 (76m52); the Société des Chargeurs Réunis (Fould) sold it here to the Bossière brothers of Le Havre in 1886 (it sank in 1890 near Le Pouliguen). Merchant Navy officer’s certificate, Saint-Malo 1906. Letter from the Secretary-General of the Merchant Navy in Paris in 1959.

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About the sale FREEMASONRY – HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS

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Auction time 07/23/2026 at 10:10 AM

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202 - MERCHANT NAVY: set of 20 documents. See original version (French)

202 - MERCHANT NAVY: set of 20 documents.
See original version (French)