Shipping Documents, 1784 – 1873

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These are old shipping documents, generally for Pilotage, Wharfage, supplying goods, porterage and lighterage, issued in various ports, some European (Bordeaux, Antwerp, Lisbon), but mainly from Far Eastern ports, eg Bombay, Calcutta, Penang, Singapore, Macau, Hong Kong etc, and all written in old-fashioned script on headed notepaper.


      Light-vessel Dues, Ceylon 1869


      Singapore receipt 1868


      Singapore 1872


      Straits LightsToll, 19-8-1868


      Straits Lights act (reverse)


      Straits Lights Toll, 28-8-1868


      Bordeaux 1825


      Bordeaux 1825 (reverse)


      Dunkerque 186-


      Bordeaux Amsterdam Steamboat 1873


      Marseille 18-8


      Bruxelles-Anvers Steam Packet 1873


      Bordeaux blank


      Bordeaux-Londres Steamer 1872


      Bordeaux-Londres (reverse)


      Bordeaux 1812 (check date)


      Havre 1818


      Bordeaux 1828


      Hamburg 1818


      Singapore 1863


      Bordeaux 1784


      Bordeaux 1786 (check date)


      Singapore Chandlers Bill


      Pharmacy Bill, Macao, 1866


      Bangkok Bill 1866


      Chincha Isles, Pilotage, Moring(sic) and Unmooring 1863


      Hongkong stores Bill 1866


      Singapore Chandlers 1866


      Lima Hotel Bill 1869


      St Helena (Tomb of Napoleon) Stores bill 1861