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Postal History, Canada continued...

Covers -- Collections & Accumulations continued...

LotNo.

Symbol

Cat No.

Lot Description

1303

CVR

Banker's Box of Various Items, including a box of 250 assorted mostly QEII Canadian postal stationery (all unused) and a few FDC. Also a large group of worldwide philatelic covers, mostly all addressed to the same collector, with large frankings (combinations up to $40) noting GB £5, USA $5, $10, $10.75 Eagles, Canada $1 to $10 stamps, etc. Also includes a group of 9 Canada Wildlife Conservation Sheets of 8 (all MNH) with a van Dam catalogue value of $735.

Est $ 100

SOLD for C$70.00
Will close during Public Auction

1304

CVR

Three Empress of Ireland Wreck Items, all written-up on two exhibit pages. Cover from Baltimore Alberta (rare for this wreck) mailed MAY.22.1914 to London England with Ottawa DLO receipt B/S in purple (usually in green), fine. A memorial card commemorating the Empress of Ireland disaster, and a memorial picture postcard posted from Québec (probably Paquebot) to France July 2, 1914 - latter two items very fine. (Scan a) (Scan b) (Scan c) (All Scans)

Est $ 200

SOLD for C$240.00
Will close during Public Auction

1305

CVR

Group of 50 Used and Unused Stationery Covers, with 42 unused and 8 used, includes mostly selected items with higher catalogue values, including two Webb EN95b (listed by Webb as used only at $300, these are mint). (Scan a)

Est $ 100

SOLD for C$130.00
Will close during Public Auction

1306

CVR

Nice Accumulation of Domestic Covers and Cards, with 100s in a shoe box, from 1861 to 2000s, majority are from 1920s to 1960s. We note early meters, mailing tags with high frankings, Advertising, censored, 1c postage paid in cash (faulty), auxiliary markings, special delivery, permits, householder item, and more. A very diverse lot, generally fine with a few faults, with about 1/3 being larger than #8 size. (Scan a) (Scan b) (Scan c) (Scan d) (Scan e) (Scan f) (All Scans)

Est $ 200

SOLD for C$170.00
Will close during Public Auction

1307

CVR

Group of Six Early Stamped Covers, 1861 to 1868, all mailed to or from Gananoque, with two 5c Beaver mourning covers, 5c Beaver to Brockville, 10c Consort to Detroit (soiling) and two 3c Large Queen covers from 1868. Overall fine or better. (Scan a) (Scan b) (All Scans)

Est $ 100

SOLD for C$140.00
Will close during Public Auction

1308

CVR

Group of 18 Edward and Admiral Covers, with 9 of each, many mailed from Gananoque and with business corner cards, many are also illustrated, some in colour. Also note a 7c Edward registered cover, another Edward multi-franked News office registered cover with many backstamps, some Edward all-over advertising covers, and more. Note a few with letterhead enclosures. A few are open on three sides, one is reduced at left, else overall fine to very fine. All scanned online. (Scan a) (Scan b) (Scan c) (Scan d) (Scan e) (Scan f) (Scan g) (Scan h) (All Scans)

Est $ 200

SOLD for C$475.00
Will close during Public Auction

1309

CVR

Group of Queen Victoria Franked Covers, 1870 to 1903, with 24 covers, all mailed from Gananoque, with a good variety of interesting such as an 1877 registered cover with F1 and 37, a single ½c SQ franking on 1896 drop letter, a previously unrecorded fancy "G" tying a 1c Small Queen to a local cover addressed to a well known Gananoque resident, several advertising covers including some nice illustrated for Hotel, Gananoque Carriage Company, etc. Note different frankings, postmarks, etc. A few small faults still overall fine to very fine. (Scan a) (Scan b) (Scan c) (Scan d) (Scan e) (Scan f) (Scan g) (Scan h) (Scan i) (Scan j) (All Scans)

Est $ 300

SOLD for C$400.00
Will close during Public Auction

1310

CVR

Group of 10 Queen Victoria Franked Covers, 1870 to 1903, with a good variety including illustrated advertising (x4, one with letterhead enclosure), a purple 1887 Lachine Locks QUE broken circle and grid (earliest recorded date), a SEP.7.1870 3c SQ Great Western Station corner card cover Petrolea to St Catharines, a SEP.4.1871 deep rose shade 3c SQ cover from the Toronto Treasury (backflap) with rosette cork, a St Catherines Street Montreal c.d.s., a mourning covers, etc. An interesting and overall fine or better lot. (Scan a) (Scan b) (Scan c) (Scan d) (All Scans)

Est $ 150

SOLD for C$190.00
Will close during Public Auction

1311

CVR/PC

Collection of Admiral Destination Rates and Frankings, with 60 covers or cards, each displayed on a written-up quadrille page in an album, explaining the rates, routes, postmarks etc. We note destinations such as Argentina, Austria, Sweden, Portugal, Japan, Italy, Denmark, Brazil, Czechoslovakia, and other more common destinations. Note postage due and lack of postage due (underpayment) and postmark interest (slogans, duplex, etc.) as well as franking combinations. Overall condition is fine or better but we note a few reduced, or other small faults. (Scan a) (Scan b) (Scan c) (Scan d) (Scan e) (Scan f) (All Scans)

Est $ 350

SOLD for C$220.00
Will close during Public Auction

1312

CVR/PC

Lot of Interesting Postal History, with many different items such as an unused 1933 Regina World's Grain Exhibition Radio card, a 1994 Reader's Digest private order stationery envelope with precancelled stamp, a large (faulty) envelope mailed to Bradford UK in 1884 initially with 12x 5c Small Queens (8 remain, all faulty), a large 1980 envelope (with contents) half burned and stamped "received in damaged condition" in a plastic envelope with a Canada Post letter explaining it was damaged due to fire, etc. a group of 16 postage due covers, some with postage due stamps and includes an ambulance cover, a stampless folded letter mailed from Williamstown CW (ERD of postmark) to Bells Corners, with three different backstamps, including the ERD of Bells Corners Nepean, a free franked cover from the Deputy Postmaster in 1900, a 1c stationery drop card with octagonal "NOT CALLED FOR" in 1882, a stampless cover with scarce Ottawa Glassworks LC datestamp (SEP.3.1858 and open only 5 years), a group of 11 covers and cards collected for Automobilia (1890s to 1950s), a 2c Edward picture postcard mailed 1910 to Tasmania, about a dozen various military covers (including a nice passed for export registered cover), a 6c Small Queen on cover from Rankin ONT (ERD SEP.25.1874) to Ireland, a group of 21 cards from the Arthur Pequehnat correspondence (1894-1906), an 1891 letter bill from Cache Creek BC to Ashcroft Station BC, a turned 1938 cover from Toronto to South Africa and back, and other interesting items. Collected by someone who had an eye for the unusual. (Scan a) (Scan b) (Scan c) (Scan d) (Scan e) (Scan f) (Scan g) (Scan h) (Scan i) (Scan j) (Scan k) (All Scans)

Est $ 250

SOLD for C$500.00
Will close during Public Auction

1313

CVR/PC

Group of 21 Admiral Covers and Cards to Foreign Destinations, including many better items such as a single 20c on registered cover to Germany (tear on back), 5c cover rate to Hong Kong, 3c cover to England, redirected to Switzerland, 3c cover to England, returned to Halifax, and back many times, 10c plum single on card to France, 6c card to Belgium, lovely 1915 small cover with single 5c to France and redirected to Cdn Red Cross in Dieppe then Boulogne, single 4c on card to Belgium, two 3c stamps on card to Finland, two 4c rate covers to England, 2c rate card to the Punjab with receiver, etc. We note many nice postmarks including International machine slogan postmarks, some stationery, etc. A nice group, overall fine to very fine, all are sleeved and reasonably priced. (Scan a) (Scan b) (Scan c) (Scan d) (Scan e) (All Scans)

Retail $ 875

SOLD for C$200.00
Will close during Public Auction

1314

CVR/PC

Group of 20 Better Admiral or Edward Covers or Cards, with two 7c Edward franked registered covers, one to Hamilton, the other to NY State. The other 18 items are all domestic Admiral covers with better frankings, postmarks, rates, etc., including coils, a bank tag with 12x $1 stamps plus others, a 1c yellow on an unsealed letter with nude machine, three AR cards (two with 10c brown and one with 10c blue), some illustrated advertising, a Banff Winter Sports slogan duplex, a FDC for War Tax (APR.15.1915) front only, etc. Overall nice condition (a few small faults), fine or better, and all are sleeved and reasonably priced. (Scan a) (Scan b) (Scan c) (Scan d) (Scan e) (Scan f) (Scan g) (All Scans)

Retail $ 570

SOLD for C$110.00
Will close during Public Auction

1315

CVR/PC

Group of Toronto Postal History, 1880s to 1960s, with 80 cards or covers, noted postal stationery, return to sender, postage due, mourning covers, private postcards, auxiliary markings, coils, street cancels, registered and more. Mostly KGV to KGVI period and overall fine or better. (Scan a) (Scan b) (Scan c) (Scan d) (Scan e) (Scan f) (Scan g) (Scan h) (Scan i) (Scan j) (All Scans)

Est $ 100

SOLD for C$100.00
Will close during Public Auction

1316

CVR/PC

Several Hundreds of QEII Covers and Cards, many with interesting attributes, including special delivery, bag tags, advertising, foreign destinations, perfins, auxiliary markings and much more. A nice lot, overall fine to very fine. (Scan a) (Scan b) (Scan c) (Scan d) (Scan e) (Scan f) (Scan g) (Scan h) (Scan i) (Scan j) (Scan k) (Scan l) (Scan m) (Scan n) (Scan o) (Scan p) (Scan q) (Scan r) (Scan s) (Scan t) (Scan u) (All Scans)

Est $ 200

SOLD for C$150.00
Will close during Public Auction

1317

CVR/PC

Group of QV and KEVII Postal History, with 48 covers or cards, includes registered, destinations (note Denmark, Malta, Spain, Italy, Syria, etc.) a few illustrated, a number of 1c Edward picture postcards, good variety of frankings (including 5c, 7c, 8c singles), a lovely deeply embossed 1903 card with QV and KEVII, a US officially sealed label, and more. Also includes three stampless and two Cents issue covers. A few faults here and there, still overall fine group, which should be viewed to better appreciate. (Scan a) (Scan b) (Scan c) (All Scans)

Est $ 200

SOLD for C$375.00
Will close during Public Auction

1318

CVR/PC

Group of Uprated Stationery Cards, Etc. from Queen Victoria (mostly) to Edward period, with 16 uprated cards to US, Germany, Newfoundland, Germany, Belgium, Austria and Scotland. Also includes six unused cards from Newfoundland, and a number of other items, such as a fancy cork on card from Longwood Ont (1879) and an interesting Candian 1c QV stationery card mailed from Australia (with a 3d New South Wales stamp) to Germany, and more. A few have stains or creases, etc, still a useful lot. (Scan a) (Scan b) (Scan c) (Scan d) (All Scans)

Est $ 250

SOLD for C$150.00
Will close during Public Auction

1319

CVR/PC

Large Collection of Postal Stationery, from Queen Victoria to modern, filling four cartons with probably thousands of used and unused covers, cards, aerogrammes, wrappers,special order post cards, and much more. Mostly items cataloguing up to $10 but includes better such as EN34G ($90 unused), EN69I ($175 unused), EN94A ($115 used) and others. Much duplication, still a very wide variety of material and mostly fine to very fine. Must be seen to better appreciate the contents. (Scan a) (Scan b) (Scan c) (Scan d) (Scan e) (Scan f) (Scan g) (Scan h) (Scan i) (Scan j) (Scan k) (Scan l) (All Scans)

Est $ 2,000

SOLD for C$1,250.00
Will close during Public Auction

1320

Group of 60 QV Advertising Post Cards, 1880s and 1890s, with advertising, or preprinted text on back, some illustrated, mostly from Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal, with lots of postmark interest as well, including an Elm Street c.d.s., Bickerdike flags, squared circles, etc. Most were mailed to Ottawa and also includes a further 15 cards with either hand-written, or types messages on back, from the same correspondence, for a total of 75. Overall very fine. (Scan a) (Scan b) (Scan c) (All Scans)

Est $ 100

SOLD for C$140.00
Will close during Public Auction

1321

Collection of 17 2c green UPU Cards to Interesting Foreign Destinations, 1881 to 1894 going to Italy (x3), Greece, Bermuda, Brazil, Australia (faulty), Netherlands (x2), Java, Spain, Guadeloupe, France, Island of Jersey, Belgium, India and Newfoundland. Quality ranges from very fine to some with aging, and most have receiving and/or transit markings. (Scan a) (Scan b) (Scan c) (Scan d) (Scan e) (Scan f) (All Scans)

Est $ 500

SOLD for C$375.00
Will close during Public Auction

1322

Group of 24 Stationery Cards to Foreign Destinations, 1877 to 1911, with Germany, Brazil, Italy, England, France, Ireland, Scotland and Switzerland, with a good selection of different stationery, including some with reply cards still attached, a few letter cards, etc. Three were postage dued upon arrival. Overall fine or better. (Scan a) (Scan b) (Scan c) (Scan d) (All Scans)

Est $ 200

SOLD for C$130.00
Will close during Public Auction