Ships on Stamps: Newfoundland (1887)

This fine 10c.ship stamp from Newfoundland was designed and printed by the American Bank Note Company in Montreal.

Released in 1887 it is an accurate description of an Atlantic brigantine.

It is symbolic of Newfoundland’s seaborne trade and probably represents a ship built at one of the British North American yards.

This is typical of the type of private sailing ship, which carried much of the trans-Atlantic mail as private ship-letters, from Newfoundland during the first three decades of the 19th century.