Lot
2611 
Cunard Line Maiden Voyage "Columbia". Two covers; Maiden Outbound Voyage, Liverpool 5th 5th January - Boston 21st January 1841, Entire Prices Current datelined "Liverpool 4. January 1841" addressed to Richmond, Virginia. Charged manuscript "52" cents being the double rate of 2 x 25 cents inland for over 400 miles plus 2 cents ship letter fee and prepaid at Liverpool. Atlantic transit 17 days.Maiden Return Voyage, Boston March 2nd - Liverpool March 16th 1841, Entire dated "N York 27 Febr 1841" endorsed "P Steamer Columbia" forwarded by Harnden to Bordeaux via J.H. Schroder & Co. of London. Reverse bears the "AMERICA / L" Liverpool, London arrival of March 17th and Foreign Branch Office departure of the same day. At Calais exchange office rated "31" Decimes with Bordeaux arrival of the 18th.
Estimate $750 - 1,000.
"Columbia" of 1,175 tons built at Greenock in 1840 made her maiden voyage to Boston on January 5th 1841, she returned to Liverpool leaving March 2nd. Ran aground and was wrecked at Cape Sable, Nova Scotia on July 2nd 1843 without loss of life.
Realized: $2,300