PATRICIA AIRWAYS FLIGHT COVER - Corner margin example rouletted with type B ascending surcharge in gree tied to reverse of June 15, 1927 flight cover from Gold Pines to Sioux Lookout, VF and scarce (Image)

Cat. Value 175 $

EARLIEST KNOWN TWO-RING 21 CANCEL - June 2, 1869 Yellow cover franked with a 3¢ Large Queen and mailed to Clinton, part backflap missing, franked with a 3c red on medium wove paper, nicely tied by light, legible and complete two-ring '21' cancel of Goderich with dispatch postmark at left, by far the earliest recorded date for this hammer, partial same-day receiver backstamp, F-VF (Image)

Estimate 500 $

PERFORATED O.H.M.S ON COVER - 4¢ War Issue corner margin single (#O254, Pos F) tied to June 15, 1945 OHMS cover from Ottawa to Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland, VF

Estimate 50 $

BOXED MONEY LETTER MARKING - Folded blue cover endorsed 'Money Letter' mailed from Montreal July 29, 1850, clear dispatch postmark in red plus scarce boxed marking, rated '9' in black, addressee excised, send to Quebec, F-VF (Image)

Estimate 150 $

OFFICIAL MAIL - DEPARTMENTAL STATIONERY ENVELOPES - Over 60 legal size envelopes, some window style, some with OHMS label affixed, regular mail, airmail, registered, etc. from 1940s to 1960s. Several are countersigned and / or bear unusually seen postal markings and other handstamps. Mixed condition in places but a great variety of envelopes, F-VF

Estimate 150 $

WAR ISSUE 1942 FIRST DAY COVERS - A collection of all the FDC's of the original issue including the airmail and special delivery, postmarks of Hamilton or Ottawa, F-VF (ex Don Leblanc collection) (Image)

Estimate 250 $

KING GEORGE VI 1954 REVALUED POST CARD - 4c on 3c Mauve, the scarce type 5 postal card, VF (Image)

Cat. Value 75 $

1842 MONEY LETTER FROM FORT ERIE - With Fort Erie postmark with manuscript date August 15, 1842, rated 2/4 and mailed to the receiver general in Kingston, endorsed 'Money' at upper left, VF (Image)

Estimate 150 $

PRIVATE PERFIN ON A POSTCARD - 1915 (July 5) Westmount Park picture postcard mailed from Montreal to Nashua, New Hampshire, bearing an elusive 2c carmine (#106) with "StC" perfin (Messrs F. X. ST. Charles & Co.) for the postcard rate to USA; a very scarce perfin usage, VF

Estimate 50 $

SEMI-OFFICIAL AIRMAIL COVER - 1926 (July 7) Red Lake - Sioux Lookout First Flight; Patricia Airways & Exploration Limited cover cacheted and pilot signed, franked with 4¢ Admiral tied by light grid, Red Lake split ring at left; on reverse a Style One with Blue-Black route inscription and ESSAY of the RED LAKE / AIR MAIL - in a noticeably larger & thicker Gothic type, tied by Red Lake JUL 7 split ring departure and same-day Sioux Lookout CDS on arrival, VF and very scarce (#CL13c essay) (Image)

Estimate 750 $

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF RECEIPT CARDS - Post Office Department cards, 1922 and 1923 bearing 10c blue and 10c bistre brown respectively, both tied by Regina CDS; former with large Regina oval receiver on back and latter with Edgeley, Sask. split ring backstamp, VF

Estimate 60 $

LAURENTIDE AIR SERVICE COVER - (25¢) Red tied to reverse of uncancelled cover by turquoise boxed cachet for 1925 Vancouver-Montreal flight, F-VF (Image)

Cat. Value 250 $

EXPLORERS OF CANADA FDC'S - An unusual collection of first day covers in three volumes featuring explorers of Canada, about 370 items in all covering the various commemorative issues for these explorers, includes (#370 (43), 378 (25), 379 (44), 390 (31), 398 (40), 412 (34), 446 (28), etc., looks to be all different, a great lot that would take many years of searching to put together, F-VF, also includes the 110 page monograph on the subject that was published by BNAPS in 2015 from author Gary Dickinson (ex Don Leblanc collection) (Image)

Estimate 750 $

VICTORIA BC EXHIBITION POSTCARDS - Six different postcards (one is used) 1907 - 1909 with views of Provincial Exhibiton and Summer Race Meeting in Victoria, VF, rarely seen (Image)

Estimate 200 $

APRIL 1851 MONEY LETTER TO MONTREAL - Blue folded letter mailed from Belleville April 9, 1851 (red postmark) just three days before the new postal rates went into effect and two weeks before the issue of stamps, rated '3' in black (to collect) and mailed to Montreal, two different 'MONEY-LETTER' handstamps in red, black Kingston and red Montreal backstamps, cover staining, Fine (Image)

Estimate 250 $

MODERN ERA FDC'S - About 90 first day covers from about 2005 to 2007 plus some later, all choice VF condition

Estimate 75 $

STAMPLESS COVERS WITH TORONTO LARGE DOUBLE RING DATESTAMP - Nice lot of three stampless covers, each struck with large Toronto datestamp (Robson Lowe HS121) dated JA 15 1840 rated "1/2" to Montreal, NO 19 1841 rated "2/3" to Kingston and SE 30 1844 with same-ink "Too Late", rated "1/1½" to Montreal; clear to very fine strikes, VF (Image)

Estimate 125 $

ELLIOT-FAIRCHILDS FLIGHT COVER - From Toronto to Red Lake via Rolling Portage with April 7 transit backstamp, VF (Image)

Cat. Value 225 $

SMALL QUEEN COVER TO SCOTLAND - 1881 (March 8) Small mourning cover, clean condition, franked with a 5c deep olive shade perf 11½x12 (#38a), Huntington, Que split ring dispatch in PURPLE, mailed to Scotland with Irvine MR 22 81 CDS receiver on back, stamp unusually tied by rare Glasgow Packet / PAID handstamp, a great item, VF; 1985 RPS of London certificate accompanies (Image)

Estimate 500 $

PIONEER AIRMAIL COVER - #CLP3, $1 Red and Blue tied by slogan cancel to Aug. 25, 1919 cover from Toronto to New York, cover folds clear of stamps and small part of backflap missing, the Aero Club stamp is fresh and well centered, a very scarce flight cover, F-VF (Image)

Cat. Value 925 $

PEACE ISSUE FDC'S - Eighteen various cacheted first day covers of the 1946 Peace Issue, includes some with blocks (one a plate block) and two of the $1 high value, VF, Scott #268-273, CE3, E10 (ex Don Leblanc collection) (Image)

Estimate 125 $

VANCOUVER - VICTORIA FLIGHT - #CL44, 5¢ Ultramarine tied by Victoria postmark to Aug. 3, 1928 flight cover from Vancouver, flight cachet on front, VF (Image)

Cat. Value 175 $

1853 MONEY LETTER FROM PERTH - Blue cover mailed from Perth postmarked Oct. 3, 1853 and with straight-line 'MONEY"LETTER' handstamp both in black, endorsed 'Money' and 'Paid' with circular 3d handstamp in red, sent to Brockville with red Oct. 4 receiver, VF (Image)

Estimate 150 $

CANADA FIRST DAY COVERS - A carton full from the 1970s and 1980s, all are clean unaddressed, small sized FDCs, with singles, pairs, or blocks of four showing over 400 different positions/ or cachets, both commemoratives and definitives, some with tagged stamps F-VF

Estimate 150 $

MEDALLION ISSUE FDC - Scott #195-201 small sized first day cover postmarked Montreal, also a FDC of the 5¢ UPU (#202) postmarked Quebec, VF

Cat. Value 100 $