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A mark for mail carried by ship.
Also known as: Paquebot marking, Ship letter marking, Sea post marking
A maritime mail marking identifies an item carried by sea, applied where mail was posted aboard a vessel or handled by a shipping route.
Identifies mail carried by sea and landed at a port for onward handling.
Contexts: History
Is applied by the landing port rather than the ship, so the marking records where the mail entered a postal system and not where it was written.
Contexts: History
An oval outline of printed letters naming the maritime service, struck at the port where the mail was landed.