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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Stamps & Postal History
• Sale Date:
  05 Mar 2015 ~ Session 1 (Lots 1 - 176) - 1pm
  05 Mar 2015 ~ Session 2 (Lots 501 - 647) - 3pm
• Lot #:
  75
• Lot Description:
  1844 lengthy entire letter signed 'B Livesay', to Yorkshire endorsed 'postpaid' & rated '5' in red, GB 'SHIP LETTER' h/s in black
  & rated '8' for an incoming shipletter, London transit b/s of '28AP28/1845' in red & 'YORK' arrival b/s of the same date, extensive internal repairs & minor overall soiling.
  Symbol: C Grade: (B)
• Provenance:
  Ex Rod Moreton.
• Notes:
  The convict Benjamin Livesay was a former clergyman who was transported for theft of a 'money letter'. He arrived in VDL in -/9/1841 per 'Westmoreland'. He spent a short time at the Brown's River Probation Station, then was assigned to prominent landowner Roderic O'Connor at Avoca where he established a school for the local children. His ticket of leave was granted 26/9/1846 & he was pardoned 22/8/1848. Livesay writes: 'I speak from an abyss...I am at comparative liberty...before the time when a Ticket of Leave is actually given. I am allowed to act in my own acct & altogether without constraint. I keep a school in a village in the interior of the island. I have 36 scholars & £30 a year. I am well clothed, live comfortably & as far as it can be called happy...'
• Estimate:
  A$1,500 - 1,500
• Realised Price:
  *****
  

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• Category:
  Numismatics

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