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Smithfield, Va. Stampless Folded Letter, USS Pennsylvania 1838
Smithfield, Va. Stampless Folded Letter, USS Pennsylvania 1838

Smithfield, Va. Stampless Folded Letter, USS Pennsylvania 1838

$ 52.8

Availability: 100 in stock
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    Description

    Virginia, Smithfield, Va. Negative Oval
    cancel in black. SFL headed Smithfield Isle of Wight Co, Va May 7th1838.
    Letter discusses a visit to Old Point Comfort with observations of the USS Pennsylvania
    (see content excerpt below). Super letter content. Folded letter with light soiling, and some internal fold splits. Shipped with USPS First Class Package.
    "About ten days ago I took my school onboard a sloop sailed to see the "big ship" (Pennsylvania) then to Old Point the largest fortification & which guards the channel to N. The ship is really a monster and carries 150 guns those on the deck are 32 pounds and ten feet long & 2 feet in diameter at the breech. It is 50 feet high and draws when loaded 26 feet of water. With that I am on the whole much pleased."
    USS Pennsylvania was a three-decked ship of the line of the United States Navy, rated at 130 guns, and named for the state of Pennsylvania. She was the largest United States sailing warship ever built.
    Shipped by USPS First Class package.