1853 1d red brown Queen Victoria, unused (no gum) with four margins, clear at right, fresh colour and fine. Accompanied by a 2013 Greene Foundation certificate. (Image)

Unitrade $ 2,000

1851 3d Heraldic, dark blue, used with light postmark, very fine and a second in blue with just clear to full margins and a socked-on-the-nose SEP.09.1859 Baddeck C.B. postmark. The latter is thinned. Also four reference items. (Image)

Est $ 200

1851 3d blue Heraldic, used with very light oval grid cancel. Four nice margins and bright colour, very fine and accompanied by a 2013 Richard Gratton certificate. (Image)

Unitrade $ 300

1851 3p bright blue Heraldic, with fresh deep colour and crisp impression three plus large margins and just touching outer frameline at one corner, unused no gum, fine-very fine. With 1952 R.P.S.L. certificate, ex. Nicolas Argenti. (Image)

Unitrade $ 1,350

1851 6d yellow green Heraldic, unused (no gum) with a sharp, crisp impression, bright colour and very fine. Accompanied by a 2004 and by a 2013 Greene Foundation certificate. (Image)

Unitrade $ 6,500

1857 6d dark green Heraldic, this stamp has deep fresh colour and four margins. Argenti wrote of this mint stamp as one of the most difficult to obtain in The British Empire. There is a light corner crease primarily in the margin and a small and relatively shallow thin. Unfortunately, someone "painted" over the thin and this obvious repair resulted in the 1996 Greene Foundation necessarily issuing a pink certificate. A lovely genuine mint example of this rare stamp which is a superb example of the engraver's art. (Scott #5 $10,000, S.G. #6 £10,000). (Image)

Unitrade $ 12,000

1857 1sh reddish violet Heraldic, with well clear to large margins for this issue, fresh colour and light Halifax "H" grid postmark, very fine. Accompanied by 2013 Richard Gratton certificate. (Image)

Unitrade $ 7,000

1860 1c Queen Victoria plate proof, in black on card mounted India paper with diagonal specimen overprint in red, block of 20 from positions 3-6/43-46, showing the overprint type B (12), C (8) and the rare type D (2), minor India crease at bottom where proof sheet was folded but still very fine and a perfect exhibit piece. (Image)

Unitrade $ 2,320

1860 8½c Queen Victoria Plate Proof in black on card mounted India paper with diagonal SPECIMEN overprint in red, block of 10 (2x5) from positions 7/48 showing type B (6) and type C (4) overprints very fine. A nice positional block. (Image)

Unitrade C$ 625