Two 3d Beaver Imperforates on Laid Paper on 1851 Folded Letter to the United States, mailed JUN.5.1851 from Montréal (double broken circle free strike in red) to Kennedy in New York City, with "PAID" and "CANADA" in arc handstamps both on front. The folded letter is franked with two 4 margin 3c Beaver singes on laid paper, both tied by target cancels in black. Both stamps are somewhat sulphuretted, there is a light horizontal fold going through both stamps, and there is a vertical fold not affecting either stamp, else very fine and attractive. Valued in the Posted Letter Guide at US$3,000. Accompanied by a 2012 Greene Foundation certificate. (Image)

Firby $ 3,000

6d Consort on Laid Paper on 1851 Cover, mailed St Thomas UC on DEC.20.1851 (free strike in red) to Kennedy in New York, through London (DEC.21 transit) and Hamilton (DEC.22 transit), with CANADA in arch handstamp in black and CANADA / PAID 10 Cts handstamp in red. The folded letter (no contents) is franked with a 6d Consort with four large margins (showing parts of the next stamp at top), tied by a target cancel. A pretty cover, with a very light vertical crease through the stamp (barely visible). Accompanied by a 2003 Greene Foundation certificate. (Image)

Unitrade $ 3,000

3d Red Beaver Imperforate on Cover, mailed from Montréal on OCT.12.1854 to St Charles, with a St Hilaire OCT.13 receiver on back. The cover is franked with a four margin 3d Beaver (small corner crease), tied by a target cancel. Fine-very fine overall. (Image)

Unitrade $ 300

3d Red Beaver Imperforate on Cover, mailed from Montréal on MAR.11.1854 to Aylmer (L.C.), with a faint MAR.14 receiver on back. The cover is franked with a four margin 3d Beaver, tied by a target cancel. Couple of vertical folds away from stamp, fine-very fine overall. (Image)

Unitrade $ 300

Group of 10 Covers Franked with 3d Beaver Imperforates, 1853-1859, first has a 4-ring #29 cancel from Perth, a folded letter was mailed Toronto to Hillsboro, an 1854 Québec Steam Boat Letter handstamp on a cover from Montréal, an 1853 mourning cover with a faulty stamp, an 1856 double weight cover from Brantford to Toronto with two 3d Beavers, and more. Some with parts of backflap missing or minor tears, creases, etc., still overall fine or better. (Image)

Unitrade $ 3,000

½d Rose Queen Victoria Perforated 11¾ Horizontal Pair on 1859 Cover, mailed from Toronto on JUN.27.1859 (broken circle free strike) to Toronto, franked with a ½d rose Queen Victoria, tied by the Toronto square grid obliterator. A scarce, sound stamp on cover, envelope shows signs of cleaning. Accompanied by a 2000 Sergio Sismondo certificate. (Image)

Unitrade $ 3,000

1859 3d Red Perforated Beaver on Cover, mailed from Montréal on MAR.31.1859 (free strike despatch datestamp) to Ottawa, with lovely City of Ottawa APR.1.1859 receiver on back. The cover is franked with a 3d red perforated Beaver, with large margins for issue and a rare sheet margin at top. The stamp has a small tear at bottom and is well tied by a Montréal 4-ring #21. Very fine. (Image)

Unitrade $ 1,750

3d Red Beaver Perforated 11¾ Horizontal Pair on 1859 Cover, mailed in April 1859 from Brantford UC to New York City. Stamps are tied by two faint 4-ring #5 obliterators, and catalogue $1,200 to themselves, as used stamps. A very fine small blue cover with a very nice embossed design on backflap in blue "Wesleyan Book Room Toronto". Opening tear on back mentioned for the record does not detract. A lovely little cover, accompanied by a 2011 Greene Foundation certificate. (Image)

Est $ 1,000

Group of 5 Covers with 1c Queen Victoria First Cents Issues, 1861-1862, with an 1862 printed circular for educational equipment, an 1861 circular from the "Société d'agriculture du compté de l'Assomption" a circular from the Standard Life Assurance Company, an empty envelope marked Trade Circular from Wm. Niuin & Co. Montréal and an undated empty envelope to Goderich. Some have minor tears or other faults, still overall a very fine group. (Image)

Est $ 150

1864 Three Colour Cents Issue Franked Folded Letter to Scotland, mailed from Toronto on NOV.12.1864 to Glasgow, Scotland with DEC.5.1864 receiver on back, endorsed "Per Cunard Mail". Franking is made up of a 12½c, 5c and 1c Cents issues, all tied by Toronto square grids, overpaying the 17c rate by 1½c. A very fine and rare folded letter, as this is the only such franked cover to the U.K., according to the Firby census. Rsv. $750. (Image)

Est $ 750

Group of Eight First Cents Issue Covers, 1859 to 1867, with four 1c frankings (2x circular envelopes and 2x folded printed matter), 10c frankings (both are brown shades, one cross-border cut down at left, and one on large domestic folded cover) and two 12½c frankings (mourning cover to Ireland and blue cover to Scotland, both very fine). Also includes a very fine uprated stationery cover with a plate strip of four ½c Small Queens to the US. A useful and overall fine to very fine group. (Image)

Est $ 500

Group of Twenty Three 5c Beaver Covers, all dated between 1860 and 1868, with postmark interest such as duplex, town postmarks (many different towns) and obliterators (4-ring numerals incl. Perth 22, Sherbrooke 42), three are registered, as well as some stamp interest, with some having references to dots and other markings. A great study lot or for reselling. Many have faults such as creases, tears (one was not counted), else overall fine. (Image)

Est $ 250

Group of Three 5c Beaver Covers, 1859-1864, first is an 1859 10c double rate folded letter from "City Branch" in Montréal to Sherbrooke (fold through one of the stamps), also an 1863 5c rate cover from Montréal to Fort Erie with a FEB.7.1863 Paris DPO / C.W. backstamp (only known used for 2 years). Lastly, an 1864 registered cover from Fitzroy Harbor to Montréal via Brockville and Packenham, paid with a single 5c (registration fee paid in cash), backflap missing as is usual for McDonald correspondence covers. Overall fine or better group. (Image)

Est $ 150

Group of Nine 5c Beaver Covers, 1860-1868, includes 2 registered covers (one is a front only) with registration fees paid in cash. A 10c rate to the USA from Montréal with a pair of #15 plus six single rate domestic covers. Condition is mixed, still overall fine or better. (Image)

Est $ 150

10c Brown Consort on 1862 Civil War Related Cover, mailed from Toronto on NOV.20.1862 to a Canadian surgeon volunteer serving with the 60th Regiment of the Indiana Volunteers in Indianapolis, with docketing reading "Letter about Maggie's wedding 1862" perhaps to deter suspicions about negative contents. The buff coloured envelope is franked with a very fine 10c Consort, tied by the Toronto square grid obliterator. A fine and interesting cover. (Image)

Est $ 200

Group of Three Cents Issue Covers, 1860-1865, first is an 1860 cover with a #17b from Montréal to the USA, second is a small 1861 cover with a #18 paying the transatlantic rate to the UK from Toronto, with the only known error "ORONTO / C.W." broken circle (listed in the PHSC database, see photo enlargement online), lastly is an oversize 1865 cover with a #18 used to pay double the weight plus registration fee from Montréal to Québec City (vertical folds and stains). Overall fine or better group. (Image)

Unitrade $ 700

10c Deep Red Purple Consort on 1860 Cover, mailed from Brantford C.W. on MAR.27.1860 (free strike of broken circle) to New York City. The fine centered stamp is tied by a target cancel, and there is a vertical crease to the cover away from the stamp, fine. (Image)

Unitrade $ 1,250

10c Deep Red Purple Consort on 1860 Cover, mailed on JAN.10.1860 to New York City, franked with a fresh example of the scarcer second printing Consort, tied by a target cancel to clean orange cover. Very fine, (Image)

Unitrade $ 1,250

Group of 10 Better Large Queen Covers, 1868-1871,starts off with three 1c circulars, all with a single #23 tied by Montréal two-ring #1, all have some separation along the folds of the circulars. Also an oversize 6c double-rate cover from Lindsay to Port Hope with two 3c LQ, as well as six 6c rate covers each with a single #27 (shades), including 4 covers to the US, one to England and a double domestic rate cover from Montréal to Manilla U.C. with rough opening at top. Some have stains or other minor faults, and condition varies with at least one very fine. (Image)

Unitrade $ 1,375

Lovely Collection of 12½c Large Queen Frankings on 14 Trans-Atlantic Covers, 1868-1870, all neatly written up on 7 album pages, illustrating conveyance through 8 different Allan Line ships. All are single frankings and one is a double franking (on the only cover dated in 1870), all mailed to England except one mailed to Ireland. We noted a mourning cover and a number of different postmarks, etc. A rarely seen collection of these, some with the usual tears on back, etc., still overall fine to very fine, all pages scanned online. (Image)

Unitrade $ 3,500

1894 1c UPU Newspaper Rate to France, the JAN.20.1894 issue of La Semaine Religieuse complete periodical, franked with single ½c black Small Queen, tied by a bull's eye cancel, underpaying the 1c UPU newspaper rate to France by ½c. Mailed from Québec and addressed with a label to France. These were probably franked and mailed in bulk with other examples mailed within Canada at the prevailing ½c rate, with this example to France escaping unnoticed by the postal authorities. Periodical is stitch bound, and contains interesting advertisements of the day, notably Canadian wines from Sandwich, Ontario, etc., very fine. An unusual underpaid solo use of the ½c value to a foreign destination (Image)

Est $ 200

Group of 9 Better Small Queen Covers, 1873 to 1897, with an 1887 Port Hope ½c black drop letter with policy included, an 1897 3c Reid Bros. Typewriter advertising cover with London squared circle, 1886 3c SQ cover with barred Prescott cancel to Ottawa, Lacelle fancy cancel #74 tying three 1c SQ on cover Pembroke to Toronto. a 3c rate cover with Dead Letter Office handstamp on back (Plain #10) and scarce Rivière Raisin datestamp in purple, a 6c parcel post oversize cover from Goderich and two 12c quadruple rate covers, both with 6c Small Queens (x2), including 1873 Montmagny to Québec and 1894 to Montréal (trimmed at left). Note 2 covers with folds (one vertical and one horizontal) and some minor creases, etc., still overall fine or better. (Image)

Est $ 250

Group of 7 Interesting Small Queen Era Covers, first is a rare 1882 3c stationery envelope from the "American Forestry Congress Montréal Meeting" to Cincinnati, with "Advertised" and ADV / NOT / CALLED FOR" handstamps on front, and three different Canadian Dead Letter Office postmarks on back; 1873 Halifax to Scotland cover with four 3c SQ (double weight pre-UPU rate); 1891 5c rate cover to England (Small Queens cancelled by 2-ring 50 obliterators), re-directed to Switzerland (with Washington DC printed return address on back, backflap missing); 1897 Winnipeg squared circle cancels tie 18x ½c Small Queens (paying the triple weight rate of 9c) to a cover mailed to Warsaw, New York (ex Daniel Cantor); 1894 Toronto to Denmark (receiver on back), franked with 10x ½c Small Queens, taxed "T 25" centimes (5c) for overweight penalty (ex Daniel Cantor); 1895 Fleming ASSA to Brandon Man. (squared circle receiver on back), registered cover with 3c and 5c Small Queens paying the 8c rate, with "CPRY WEST OF WINNIPEG No. 3" datestamp on back; last cover was mailed from the US to the US with a 3c Washington, then forwarded to Canada with a 3c Small Queen which appears to have been tied by a US obliterator, possibly a Bradford NH duplex (small opening tear at right). All covers are very fine, except where described above. (Image)

Est $ 350

Interesting Group of 70 Small Queen Covers, with a wide range of material, including registered, cross border, advertizing (incl. illustrated), mourning, frankings, rates, etc. We noted an 1872 cover with a pair of 3c rose (tied by lovely corks) to the US, taxed "20", fourteen 2c and 3c U of T Voting Paper envelopes, a Québec Legislature crown postmark, a Brantford stamp dealer cover with all-over back Oil advertizing, a Springhill NS stamp dealer registered cover with 16x half cent SQ (including a plate block of 12 on back), couple of Way Letters, six 5c single frankings to Holland, England and Germany, a November 1889 registered cover with a 3c vermilion and a 3c deep rose carmine (ex de Volpi), an 1890 cover from Nova Scotia to India, 1890 cover from Woodstock to India, two registered covers with 8c singles, these tied by squared circles from Shakespeare (1895) and Little Current (1897) and more. Also noted a good variety of postmarks including machine flags, small towns such as Ochil (new ERD, very rare), Long Lake (new ERD for postmark), Cheapside CW (in blue, new LRD and one of two known), and more. 18 covers are oversize, some have faults (cut down, roughly opened, etc.) still an overall fine to very fine group with many nice items. (Image)

Est $ 400

Study on 1c Small Queen Rates, with 8 covers and one piece, all neatly written-up on Fred Stullberg pages, the range is from 1875 to about 1890, we note a Toronto 1875 drop letter (orange shade is perforated 11½ x 12), others are circular rates within Ontario and the piece shows a 1c SQ and a 2c RSL. A very fine group, all scanned online. (Image)

Est $ 150