For Melbourne, succeeding “Oneco” carrying U.S. mails, from T Wharf, the new A1 clipper barque “Escort” … Boston, June 30, 1870

J. B. Nichols, Commander. 636 tons register. This Beautiful Vessel, entirely new … For freight or cabin passage, apply to Henry W. Peabody & Co., no. 17 Liberty Square. Messrs. Newell & Co., Agents at Melbourne. Boston, Massachusetts : Railway Steam Printing Works, 1870. Clipper card, 165 x 105 mm, lithograph-printed recto only in carmine, azure, and gold on white enamel card; at the head is a vignette illustration with the Henry W. Peabody & Co. Australian Line house flag, flanked by the United States and Australian coats of arms; fine condition.

Scarce and attractive clipper card advertising a sailing of the Escort, an Australian Line ship, from Boston to Melbourne in August 1870. She arrived in Hobson’s Bay, Melbourne on 14 November 1870 (The Argus, 15 November 1870):

‘ARRIVED. NOV. 14. Escort, American barque, 636 tons, J. B. Nichols, from Boston August 6. Passengers cabin: Misses Crawford (two), and Mr. O. C. Day, – Newell and Co, agents.‘