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