1851 3d red Beaver, unused, with strong laid lines. Large margin at right, three others are close or just cut into design. Lightly oxidized and soiled, with broken diagonal crease at lower left and light vertical creases, else a scarce unused stamp missing from most collections. Fine and accompanied by a 2013 Greene Foundation certificate. (Image)

Unitrade $ 25,000

1851 3d red Beaver on Laid Paper, used with target cancel, four margins and very fine. (Image)

Unitrade $ 1,600

1851 3d red Beaver on Laid Paper, used, with centrally struck target cancel. Three large margins plus one that touches frameline at bottom right. Large repaired tear, else fine appearance. (Image)

Est. $ 100

1851 3d red Beaver on Laid Paper, used with centrally struck target cancel, four margins and very fine. (Image)

Unitrade $ 1,600

1851 6d slate violet Consort, used pair with smudged cancels, left stamp is fine with left and bottom margins clear, close at top, right stamp close along frameline at right, cut into design at top, very good-fine. (Image)

Unitrade $ 1,750

1851 6d slate violet Consort on Laid Paper, used with light target cancels plus trace of a red cancel at bottom left. Three large margins plus one clear at bottom, very fine. (Image)

Unitrade $ 2,500

1851 6d slate violet Consort on Laid Paper, used with moderate target cancel. Four margins, with tiny thin in bottom margin, else very fine. (Image)

Unitrade $ 2,500

1851 6d slate violet Consort on Folded Letter, with two copies, paying the double weight rate to the US border. Posted at St. Catharines U.C. on OCT.16.1852 and later re-rated 20 cents from the border to New York City. The right stamp has a vertical file crease and a tiny corner crease in bottom right corner margin, and the right stamp has a horizontal crease in the left sheet margin, else both stamps have 4 margins. A nice, clean cover which is accompanied by a 2013 Greene Foundation certificate. (Image)

Est. $ 2,000

1853 6d slate violet Consort on Folded Letter, mailed Montreal APR.10.1853 and addressed to New York. Red CANADA in arc, red PAID and red "10" rate handstamp on front. Stamp has 3 large margins plus one that is cut into outer frameline at top and has a vertical crease, with target cancel. A repair to the cover almost certainly necessitated removal of the stamp. Vertical file folds as usual. (Image)

Unitrade $ 2,500

1852-1857 6d black Vertical Trial Colour Proof Pair, with orange vertical SPECIMEN, bottom proof has light hinge remnant at edge, fine-very fine. (Image)

Unitrade $ 600

1851 6d black Consort Trial Colour Proof, with vertical SPECIMEN overprint in orange. Cut into at right and thin, else fine. (Image)

Unitrade $ 300

1851 6d grey blue Consort Trial Colour Proof, with vertical SPECIMEN overprint in carmine. Very fine appearance but thinned. (Image)

Unitrade $ 325

1851 12d black Queen Victoria Plate Proof, with vertical SPECIMEN in carmine. Faults, including repairs, etc, still a presentable example. (Image)

Unitrade $ 2,500

1851 12d black brown Queen Victoria Plate Proof, on card with vertical SPECIMEN overprint in carmine. Very fine. (Image)

Unitrade $ 2,500

1852 3d red Beaver, used with centrally struck 4-ring numeral, three large to clear margins, close to frameline at top left corner, else fine-very fine. (Image)

Unitrade $ 225

1852 3d red Beaver, used with neat target cancel. There is a short transfer variety at right, and scarce thus. Four large margins, very fine. Accompanied by a 2002 Greene Foundation certificate. (Image)

Est. $ 400

1852 3d red Beaver on Medium Wove Paper, used with light cancel and four large margins. Very fine. (Image)

Unitrade $ 300

1852 3d red Beaver Horizontal Pair on Cover, mailed Montreal JUL.5.185? and addressed to Louis-Joseph Papineau at Saratoga Springs, New York (no receiver). The stamp pair is tied to cover by two 4-ring #21 cancels, and are from positions 99 and 100, with small part of imprint in bottom margin "Raw...". Intact red wax seal on back and many small pencil notations from previous owners. Very fine and accompanied by a 2004 Greene Foundation certificate. (Image)

Est. $ 2,000

1858 3d red Beaver on Cover, a three margin example, tied to cover likely from Toronto to Hamilton, Ontario with MAY.29.1858 double broken circle receiver on back. A few hinge remnants on back, else fine. (Image)

Unitrade $ 300

1853 3d brown red Beaver, Machine Made Wove Paper, with three huge margins (bottom clear of outer frameline) showing next stamp at left, numeral 16 in grid postmark (Hamilton), very fine. (Image)

Unitrade $ 350

1853 3d brown red Beaver, used with target cancel and four margins. Tiny stain in upper left margin, else very fine. (Image)

Unitrade $ 350

1852 3d red Beaver on Ribbed, Soft Wove Paper, used with very light target cancel. Four large, even margins, and showing part of the imprint at top "Rawdo...". Very fine and accompanied by a 1974 BPA certificate. (Image)

Unitrade $ 750

1854 3d red Beaver on Ribbed Paper, used with light cancel. Margins are large to clear, pinhole and shallow thin, else fine. (Image)

Unitrade $ 400

1852 3d orange red Beaver Block of Four on Thin Paper, used, with target cancels. Cut into at top, just at frameline at right, with full margins at bottom and left. The two right stamps have a vertical crease, and light stains on back affecting three stamps, else a fine block. Ex. Huff, and accompanied by a 2013 Richard Gratton AIEP certificate. (Image)

Est. $ 1,000

1852 3d orange red Beaver on Thin Paper, used with pen cancel. Four margins, very fine. (Image)

Unitrade $ 300