Lot
2672 
Hérout & de Handel Lines "Union" Last Completed Voyage, New York - Cherbourg, 30th September - 18th October 1847. Entire headlined "New York 30 Sept 1847" endorsed "p Union via Cherbourg" and addressed to Cognac. The exchange office appears to have been at Havre for all the Cherbourg arrivals and the letter bears the Havre arrival stamp of the 20th October, two days after the Union docked at Cherbourg. Charged 18 decimes on arrival at Cognac on the 22nd October. The Union embarked from Havre on its third and final voyage on the 24th November 1847 but sustained severe storm damage and returned to Cherbourg on the 1st December; light toning along file fold, otherwise Very Fine. Estimate $400 - 600.
Realized: $450