1851 3d red Heraldic Imperforate, used with neat oval grid #1, with four margins and bright colour, very fine. (Image)

Unitrade $ 700

1851 3d red Heraldic Imperforate, a used pair with a scarce and good part of a "COLONIAL EXPRESS MAIL / ST JOHN, N.B. / SEP 5" c.d.s. postmark in red. Margins are well clear to cut into, still a nice postmark used to privately carry mail to Boston by Favor's Express. The small handful of examples we have seen are free strikes on cover, and thus on-stamp examples must be rare. (Image)

Est $ 150

1851 6d olive yellow Heraldic Imperforate, used with oval barred #1 cancel, large margin at top showing part of next stamp, three others are close to clear. Small tear and overall soiling, still a scarce stamp, fine. (Image)

Unitrade $ 800

1859 6d Bisect on Folded Cover, mailed from St John's on APR.27.1859 to Edmunston (APR.29 receiver) through Woodstock (APR.28 transit). This folded cover (no letter inside) is franked with a 6d olive yellow, bisected to make up the 3d rate. It is well tied by two #1 oval grid obliterators. A very clean cover, with two vertical file folds (one running through stamp) with two expert signatures including a Pfenninger (Munich) handstamp on front and Jakubek (Hamburg). (Image)

Unitrade $ 4,500

1860 5c Connell Plate Proof in Brown, a full sheet of 100, printed on wove paper, with trimmed margins all around (sold this way from the ABN Archives sale). Position 60 has the major re-entry (especially in the left 5, catalogue number 5Pvii), as does position 13 (catalogue 5Pviii) and position 61 (catalogue 5Pix). All four corner stamps have faults, including thins, and three of them have been poorly torn away, and two have been re-hinged into place. We believe this happened when the sheet was removed from its original card backing. Still a very fine and extremely rare sheet. By the 1950s, only two of these sheets had survived, including one owned by Nicholas Argenti, and both of them were broken up sometime before 1990. Five more sheets were offered in the 1990 American Bank Note Co. Archives sale in New York, and of those we believe that this may be the only surviving intact one. (Image)

Unitrade $ 35,400

1860 5c Connell Plate Proof in Brown, on wove paper, in a sheet margin block of 15. A fresh and scarce block with deep colour and very fine. (Image)

Unitrade $ 5,250

1860 5c Connell Plate Proof, with two different: one brown on wove paper and the second dark brown on India paper with vertical SPECIMEN overprint, with period and thick sans-serif red lettering. Both are very fine. (Image)

Unitrade $ 600

1860 5c Connell Plate Proof, with Thin Sans Serif SPECIMEN Overprint, on card-mounted India paper, very fine. (Image)

Unitrade $ 250

1860 5c Connell Plate Proof, with Thick Sans Serif SPECIMEN Overprint, on India paper, very fine. (Image)

Unitrade $ 250

1860 1c Locomotive Group of 5 Different Plate Proofs, with a trial colour rose red on bond paper (6TCii), rest are on India paper, with a dark violet (6P), thin sans serif SPECIMEN (6Piii), thick sans serif SPECIMEN (6Piv, this one is on card) and a thick sans serif SPECIMEN without dot on a pair (6Pv). (Image)

Unitrade $ 775

1860 2c Queen Victoria Group of Plate Proofs, with an orange on card (7Pi), rest are trial colour proofs, with a dark green on card (7TCi) a dark green block with imprint, a black single (TCii), a rose single with imprint, a rose block and rose block with imprint (7TC). (Image)

Unitrade $ 1,460

1860 5c Queen Victoria Die Proof Forgery in Olive Green, on card, in size of issued stamp, very fine and scarce. (Image)

Est $ 150

1860 5c Queen Victoria Group of Plate Proofs, all on India paper, with a horizontal pair and single (8P), single with thin sans serif SPECIMEN (8Pii), single with thick sans serif SPECIMEN (8Piii) and a block with two Type D and two Type B SPECIMEN overprints. (Image)

Unitrade $ 717

1865 10c vermilion Queen Victoria Bisect on Part of Cover, mailed Saint John on MAR.18.1865 (double broken circle on back) to Hopewell (Hillsborough MAR.18.1865 backstamp). Franked with a diagonal half of a 10c vermilion, paying the proper 5c domestic rate, properly tied by a late use of the Saint John oval grid obliterator. Cover is roughly opened at top, has stains, etc, still a proper, albeit late usage with nice postmarks. Accompanied by a 1994 Greene Foundation certificate. Ex. Ron Saint and George MacManus. (Image)

Est $ 150

1860 10c vermilion Queen Victoria with Double Impression, unused (no gum) with rich bright colour, fairly well centered and with a pulled perf at bottom. Listed but unpriced in Unitrade and ex. Gerald Welburn. A scarce stamp. (Image)

Est $ 200

1860 10c Queen Victoria Plate Proof Group, all on India paper, with a marginal horizontal pair and a single, horizontal pair with diagonal SPECIMEN in serifed letters (in black), horizontal pair with SPECIMEN in thin sans serif letters (in green), and a single with SPECIMEN overprint in thick sans serif letters (in green). (Image)

Unitrade $ 520

1860 10c Queen Victoria Trial Colour Proof in Orange, a horizontal pair on India paper, very fine. (Image)

Unitrade $ 600

1860 12c Steamship Group of Plate Proofs, with a trial colour single in orange (10TCi), a thin sans serif SPECIMEN overprint on a single and a pair (10Pii, these have very minor hinge staining) plus an unlisted Trade Sample Proof in rose. (Image)

Unitrade $ 290

1860 17c Prince of Wales Group of Plate Proofs, with a block, a single (with different shade black) and a pair of 11P (no overprint), a pair with diagonal serifed SPECIMEN (11Pi), a single with thick sans serif SPECIMEN (11Piii), a pair plus a single with thin sans serif SPECIMEN (11Pii), a trial colour proof single in reddish orange (11TC). (Image)

Unitrade $ 1,090

Lovely New Brunswick Collection, all written-up on 11 quadrille pages, with mint (including NH) and used stamps, a reprint, proofs, forgeries, shades, imprints, varieties (including elongated earring), blocks, postmarks, etc. Should easily catalogue over $5,000. We have scanned all the pages online and viewing is recommended to better appreciate the quality and value of this collection. (Image)

Est $ 1,000

Interesting Mint and Used Collection, with 1c (a scarce used vertical strip of 5, two unused singles, all with shades), 2c (a used and an unused single), 5c (used single first printing, mint block of four of the second printing, with hinged og and unused block of four of the third printing, plus a single use on 1866 cover), 10c (a lovely and fresh unused block of ten, plus a single on cut down yellow 1866 cover to Philadelphia), 12c (a SPECIMEN overprinted plate proof and a postally used single on large piece) and 17c (a fresh mint block of nine, with original gum but with adherence). (Image)

Scott $ 1,982

Collection of Mint Cents Issues, with 1c (two slightly different shades, both lightly hinged), 2c (two singles and a block, all without gum, with different shades and the block contains four extremely fine stamps), 5c (three singles, two with disturbed gum, one without gum, with different shades), 10c (two singles, one is never hinged, the other without gum, slightly different shades), 12½c (with lightly disturbed gum) and 17c (two hinged singles). Most stamps are very fine centered, and we have catalogued as all cheapest shades. A fresh group. (Image)

Scott $ 666

Group of New Brunswick Obliterators on Stamp, with a barred oval on 2c RLS, a Lacelle #86 on 3c SQ, Lacelle #87 on 1c SQ, Lacelle #679 (in purple) on 1c SQ, 2-ring #7 strikes on 1c LQ(x2), 3c LQ, 15c LQ and 3c SQ (x2), Lacelle #1544 (similar to) on a 3c SQ, Lacelle #487 on a pair of early 2c SQ, two strikes of Lacelle #586 on 3c SQs, a D&S #596 on a 3c SQ, two 1c SQ with St John rollers and two 1c SQ with St John parcel cancels. An overall nice group, with strikes ranging from identifiable to choice. 19 items in all. (Image)

Est $ 150

Collection of New Brunswick Postmarks on Stamps, with 9 Small Queens, 7 Jubilees, 18 QV Numerals and Leafs plus another 11 various. We note nice socked on the nose strikes, some small towns, a few 8c QV stamps, Admirals, NB stamps, etc. A nice group. (Image)

Est $ 75

Group of 7 Stamped Covers, 1866-1872, two are franked with 5c NB stamps, one of those has a nice embossed corner card and great backstamps (St John PAID, and Newcastle). 1869 3c Large Queen from Moncton to Hopewell Hill (W.O. Hopewell Cape on back, ex. V.G. Greene), 1872 6c Large Queen St John to Addison, Maine (2-ring #7 tying dark brown shade stamp), 1868 3c Large Queen St John to Hampton (very light receiver), 1866 10c vermilion NB stamp on cover St John to Philadelphia (with Way Letter, ADV and NOT FOUND handstamps on front, faults). Also a 3c Large Queen cover mailed from Brockville (duplex dated APR ?? 1868, early usage) to Fraserville CW with light receiver. Overall fine with a few faults. (Image)

Est $ 100