NOVA SCOTIA MAILBOAT CANCELLATIONS - 12½¢ Black (Scott #13), five used singles each cancelled on board a mail steamer, includes #A91, A92, A95, A97 and A98 cancellations (from the ships S.S. Canada, Arabia and Asia, Africa, Europa and Arabia respectively), a lovely group of these very hard to find cancellations, usual minor flaws, F-VF (Image)

Estimate 500 $

NOVA SCOTIA BADDECK CANCELS - A lovely selection of seven "5c." rate handstamps prepared by the Postmaster of Baddeck, Cape Breton, all are on the 5¢ blue stamp, we note Macdonald Types III (2) and IV (5) with mainly subtype "a", an attractive and unusually large lot of these seldom seen, short-lived rate markings, F-VF (Image)

Estimate 600 $

FIVE CENT COVER FROM BADDECK - 5¢ Dark Blue (Scott #10c) tied to June 1, 1865 coloured cover from Baddeck, Cape Breton to Little Glace Bay, tied by oblong '5c' cancel (Macdonald Type III) and by additional oval grid cancel as customary by the Postmaster, Sydney June 6 transit backstamp. A rare handstamp on cover -- only four were reported by J.J. Macdonald, VF, ex. Graham McCleave collection (Image)

Estimate 600 $

NEW BRUNSWICK STEAMSHIP PROOFS - 12½¢ Steamship, a lovely lot of four trade sample proofs on wove paper in different colours -- grey, light purple, deep magenta and pink, a rarely seen group, VF (Scott #10) (Image)

Cat. Value 800 $

NEW BRUNSWICK STEAMSHIP PROOFS - 12½¢ Steamship, a lovely lot of three trade sample proofs on wove paper in different colours -- very pale grey, red lilac and grey violet, each with minor thin as often seen on these, rarely seen, VF (Scott #10) (Image)

Cat. Value 600 $

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND PROOFS - 6p Queen Victoria, the collection of reprint die proofs in eight different colours, a beautiful lot, VF+ (Image)

Cat. Value 240 $

NOVA SCOTIA COVER WITH 'UNCLAIMED' MARKING - 10¢ Queen Victoria tied by grid cancel to Feb. 11, 1867 cover from Halifax to New York, BOSTON BR. PKT. transit, backstamped with straight-line UNCLAIMED marking and Brooklyn April 4 postmark, F-VF (Scott #12) (Image)

Estimate 175 $

NEW BRUNSWICK STAMPLESS - Folded stampless letter from St. John May, 21, 1845 with clear backstamp postmark, blue St. Andrews transit (22nd) crossing the border at Robbinston, Maine and sent to Boston, rated 18¾ in black, VF (Image)

Estimate 125 $

NEW BRUNSWICK STAMPLESS COVER - Folded stampless letter from St. John Mar. 3, 1846 with large black postmark, faint blue St. Andrews transit (4th) crossing the border at Robbinston, Maine with red postmark on front and sent to Boston, rated 12½ in black, VF (Image)

Estimate 100 $

NOVA SCOTIA PENCE COVER - Orange cover franked with a 3 pence blue in an unusual deep shade on blued paper, tied by oval bars cancel, sent Mar. 13, 1858 from Wilmot to Halifax, stamp is fresh with clear to huge margins, cover wrinkling but a nice item, Fine, ex Sandy Clarke (Scott #2var)

Estimate 175 $

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND FORGERY - 4¢ Green (Scott #14) lower half sheet of 50 of the seldom seen lithographed 'BIRMINGHAM' FORGERY, some usual flaws and selvedge missing, quite likely the largest remaining multiple, F-VF Gratton catalogue value is $5,000.00 F (Image)

Estimate 750 $

NOVA SCOTIA STAMPLESS TO THE U.K. - Folded letter datelined Sept. 1, 1840 mailed from Halifax to London, rated 1/- with light Halifax postmark in black on front, red London Sept. 15 receiver on reverse, a scarcer early date, F-VF (Image)

Estimate 100 $