201 - Merchant navy: set of 20 documents.
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Estimate €150 - €200

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Merchant navy: set of 20 documents. Extract from the registers of the Council of State in 1665, seven pages concerning ships purchased in the Netherlands for the East India Company and subsequently disputed. Letter from Dunkirk in 1787, concerning a consignment of 24 barrels of nails. Letter from Cherbourg in Year 13, arrival of a ship carrying a cargo of sugar, cotton and timber. Imperial decree regulating pilotage services (12 pages), 1806. Letter from Amsterdam in 1806, cargo damage. Circular of 1808 on the duties to be levied on reports submitted by captains. Letter from Toulon in 1817 concerning a ship lost off Sète. Regulations on the flags of merchant ships, 4 pages in the Bulletin des Lois, 1817. Letter from Dunkirk in 1821, concerning the departure of ships and their cargoes. Advertising circular from Chamonin frères in Dunkirk in 1823 regarding the receipt and dispatch of goods via that port. Royal Ordinance of over 80 pages setting out regulations and pilotage tariffs, location by location, in 1828. Act on the liability of shipowners, June 1841. Poster advertising an auction of a ‘berrichon’-type boat in Châtillon-en-Bazois in 1933. Certificate of registration for the screw-propelled steamer ‘Meuse’ (74m), newly built at La Seyne in 1872, owned by the Paquet company. Five letters from Bordeaux concerning boats (1783, 1843 and 1869/70). Navigation licence with customs receipt for a small sailing boat built in Fréjus and registered in St Tropez in 1953

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About the sale FREEMASONRY – HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS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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201 - Merchant navy: set of 20 documents. See original version (French)

201 - Merchant navy: set of 20 documents.
See original version (French)