RARE 7½d-RATE COVER TO G.B. WITH 3d BLUE PAIR + DIAGONAL BISECT IN SINGLE STRIP; 15 Nov. 1856 env. (opened out; some overall wear and dusting - small stain well clear of stamps and marks) to Liverpool 'per first steamer' with 1st-Issue 3d blue strip of three (RH stamp bisected diagonally; close to wide margins all round except where bisected; tiny rub at one corner) tied by fair Albion Mines barred ovals and a fair red tombstone-framed "PAID/LIVERPOOL" ds with black Halifax (?) hs "5" accountancy mark (crease) beside the stamps. Rare early bisect transatlantic cover. (Image)

1851-60 3d BRIGHT-BLUE STRIP OF 3 ON EL: An 1859 EL to Halifax franked with a horiz. strip of three 3d stamps with 4 margins (filing crease between two right end stamps), cancelled v. lightly. Scarce triple rate franking. (Image)

RARE 7½d-RATE COVER TO G.B. WITH 3d BLUE DIAGONAL BISECT; 11 Jul. 1860 env. (flap faults) to Newcastle-on-Tyne franked with 1st-Issue 3d deep-blue bisected diagonally + 6d yellow-green; wide margins all round except where bisected, cancelled by a barred oval (not tied), and with Pictou, Halifax, & Newcastle cds's on back. Rare early bisect transatlantic cover. BPA cert. (1994). (Image)

RARE 1851-60 6d BISECT ON COVER: 1860 env. (small faults) to Annapolis franked with a diagonally bisected 6d deep green (SG6, large margins) tied with a barred canceller, with Halifax and Annapolis cds's on reverse. An exceptionally fine example of this rare shade used to pay the 3d rate. SG6a £5000. (Image)

1860 1c & 2c PLATE PROOFS: 1c in black, orange and green (Uni 8P, 8TCv, 8TCxi) and 2c in lilac (Uni 9P) fine to v. fine, green stamp with some staining. (4) (Image)