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LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
687 cover   image1813 (February 25), War of 1812, blockade-runner mail, London to New York, diverted via Newport, Rhode Island, stampless entire, with commercial contents, privately carried with manuscript vessel directive "p Brutus" at lower left, entered the mails with black circular NEWPT R.I. (15 May) c.d.s., manuscript "53" rate marking on face, slight staining at left and vertical fold, otherwise fine; this letter was carried by the ship Brutus, which avoided the British blockade of New York by landing at Newport, with the mail thereafter despatched overland; the 53-cent rate represents a triple-weight inland fee plus the standard ship fee. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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Estimate C$ 250

Currently...C$150.00
Will close during Public Auction
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1818 (November 7), London to Hartford, Connecticut, transatlantic letter with anti-slavery contents, sent by prominent Scottish philanthropist and abolitionist Zachary Macaulay to the Rev. T.H. Gallaudet, pioneer of American deaf education, struck with red circular London / Paid (7 Nov) dispatch datestamp, manuscript 4/5 British packet rate paid at the London G.P.O. - a charge so substantial that the issue of postal rates is discussed in the enclosed letter - black manuscript "25" for the American inland rate due on delivery in Hartford, fine-very fine and fresh.

Macaulay's five-page letter discusses education for the deaf and provides a firsthand report on the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, where Macaulay submitted an address to the European sovereigns to declare the slave trade as piracy, a necessary step as Portugal and Spain continued the traffic under their flags despite Britain's formal abolition in 1807. He records the Emperor of Russia's visceral response: "I take shame to myself before God that we should have left this great work unfinished at Vienna... I should be the most ungrateful of men, if I did not labour with all my might to liberate those who groan under a worse oppression." The Emperor pledged to use all his influence to join in this "work of justice and humanity." Beyond global politics, Macaulay mentions his son — likely the future historian Thomas Babington Macaulay - pursuing his studies at Cambridge, and references the cooperative efforts of the Duke of Wellington and Lord Castlereagh in the abolitionist cause. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7)

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Estimate C$ 500

Currently...C$300.00
Will close during Public Auction
689 cover   image1840 (July), Mulready envelope to Mrs. Henry Cole, stereo A15, with contents initially "H.C.", handstamped with crisp Charing Cross straight-line, with centrally-struck red Maltese Cross, to Sheperton [sic], Chertsey, with c.d.s. backstamp (16 Jul), imperfections, including internal repair and a few adhesion marks on reverse and the odd tone spot, else a fine Mulready linked to one of the most prominent figures in the campaign for postal reform.

Henry Cole was the strategic "right-hand man" who transformed Rowland Hill’s "radical" ideas of postal reform into a functional reality. While Hill authored the logic behind the Uniform Penny Post, Cole ran the aggressive lobbying campaigns necessary to crush political opposition from the Post Office establishment. His role also involved the supervision of the creation of the Penny Black and pre-paid stationery. The Victoria & Albert Museum holds a pencil drawing by Henry Cole, dated 1840, depicting Shepperton Lock, linking him directly to the area in this period. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Estimate C$ 250

Currently...C$150.00
Will close during Public Auction
690 cover   image1851 (July 17), maiden voyage of the Inman Line "City of Manchester," stampless folded letter, with commercial contents, struck with "6" in blue octagon, to Philadelphia, endorsed "per City of Manchester", interior dated July 17, carried on the maiden voyage of the Inman Line "City of Manchester", docketing arrived in Philadelphia on 15 August, very fine and scarce, ex Booth.

The Inman Line began by carrying cargo and passengers to Philadelphia. A shift to New York and the Civil War resulted in the US Post Office relying on the company for mail service. Most was carried via American steamship. In 1867, they obtained a British mail contract, though new competition resulted in its gradual decline, and it was eventually taken over by the American Line. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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Estimate C$ 350

Currently...C$250.00
Will close during Public Auction
691   image1852/54, the Sir John Franklin Search Expeditions, balloon-dropped message, on paper, printed on the H.M.S. "Assistance", double-sided, on front reading "Provisions left in H.M.S. North Star at Beechey Island. / Provisions, House and Steam Launch, at Port Leopold. / Spring Parties searching by Sledges, in the direction of / Jones's Sound and along the North Shore of Melville Island. / H.M.S. Resolute and Steam Tender at Bridport Inlet, Melville / Island. H.M.S. Investigator, found by Resolute at Bank's Land. / Smith's, Whale, and Jones's Sound, have been examined by / Commander Inglefield, in the Screw Steamer Isabel. but no / traces found. Letters from England by her. / W.W. May Lieut. & Commanding Officer. / [H.Briant, Printer H.M.S. Assistance.], and on reverse 'Despatched by a Balloon, from H.M.S. Assistance, / Captain Sir Edward Belcher. / In Winter Quarters Lat 76,51 0 N Long 97.0.0. W. / To Sir John Franklin, June 23, 1853.' Trivial light discoloration, otherwise remarkably fresh. An exceptional rarity.

Sir John Franklin had set off to discover the Northwest Passage in May 1845 and vanished into the unknown. Several relief expeditions were despatched in the hope of establishing the fate of the explorers, one method adopted being the message-carrying balloon. Vanessa Histon, in “Publishing and Printing On Board Ship” (Dec. 1985) writes: "oiled silk balloons were filled with hydrogen (made by pouring sulphuric acid onto zinc filings) and to them were attached slow matches, about five feet long. Pieces of coloured paper and silk on which were printed details of the searchers’ position and intended routes, were attached to the matches with thread. As the balloon sailed along and the match burned, the papers were detached, and it was hoped that their bright colours against the whiteness of the snow would attract the attention of any survivor’s of Franklin’s party.” The searches proved fruitless. Franklin had died in June 1847, and the surviving members of the expedition abandoned their ice-locked ships in April 1848, perishing during the overland march that followed. It was later established from the position of their remains that some of the men had traversed the final undiscovered link of the Northwest Passage, achieving the object of their voyage. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Estimate C$ 3,500

Currently...C$2,500.00
Will close during Public Auction
692 cover   image1853 (April 15), 1sh Embossed on transatlantic folded letter from Leeds to Massachusetts, the stamp with four clear margins, cancelled with centrally-struck “447” barred numeral, blue Leeds double split-ring despatch strike, manuscript “Pr. Canada” ship notation in manuscript, reverse with Liverpool (16 Apr) transit backstamp struck on front with red “5 CENTS” and Boston Br Pkt Paid c.d.s. (29 Apr), a fine and scarce franking. (Sc. 5, $1,350) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5)

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Estimate C$ 250

Currently...C$150.00
Will close during Public Auction
693 cover   image1856 (August 10), three-colour combination franking to Spain, bearing 1d red-brown perforated, 2d blue perforated, and 1s Queen Victoria Embossed, margins touching on three sides and close at top, the trio tied together by barred numeral "15", endorsed "via France"; Calais entry c.d.s. on face with blue "8" and "Rs" handstamps; reverse with Lombard Street Maltese Cross (9 Aug) and Barcelona c.d.s. in blue (13 Aug); horizontal file fold through adhesives, otherwise fine. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Estimate C$ 200

Currently...C$90.00
Will close during Public Auction
694 cover   image1865 (May 17), Liverpool to Eckernforde, Schleswig, 9d single-franking folded letter, franked with 9d bistre, Plate 2, tied by neatly-struck Liverpool 466 duplex, endorsed "via Hamburg" in manuscript,with London transit (18 May), dual Hamburg oval and "St. P.A. Hamburg" c.d.s. backstamps (19 May), filing folds, an attractive and uncommon franking. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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Estimate C$ 400

Currently...C$300.00
Will close during Public Auction
695 cover   image1867 (March), London to Paris, France, Sir George Hayter signed cover, franked with 4d vermilion plate 8 tied by LONDON NW/8 duplex, ANGL. AMB. CALAIS entry mark on front (14 Mar) with same-day Paris arrival backstamp, back flap with imprint of the Principal Painter Ordinary, signed "G. Hayter" at lower left, light edge creases, scarce.

Sir George Hayter (1792–1871), appointed Principal Painter Ordinary to Queen Victoria on the death of Sir David Wilkie and knighted in 1841, is best known for his historic and royal portraiture including the State Portrait of Queen Victoria and several scenes of the 1838 Coronation. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Estimate C$ 200

Currently...C$120.00
Will close during Public Auction
696 cover   image1867, cover from the H.M.S. Scout, Vancouver, British Columbia, to Monkstown, Ireland, from Midshipman Edward Henry Bayley, franked 7d for the 6d Officer's letter with the additional penny for transit via the Panama Canal, carried to Panama via the Pacific Mail Steamship Co., collected by the Tyne in Colon on June 5, transferred in St. Thomas to the Tasmanian on July 1, arriving in Southampton on July 14, despite the hazards of a yellow fever epidemic in St. Thomas, reverse with London (15 Jul), H&K Pact (15 July), and Monkstown (15 July) backstamps, fresh and fine.

Captain Edward Henry Bayley, C.B. (1849–1904), entered the Royal Navy in 1863 and rose through the ranks to Captain in 1894, serving with distinction across the Empire. His commands included HMS Mohawk on the Cape Station, where he was wounded during a landing at Dominica in 1893, HMS Pelorus, which he brought to Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee Review in 1897, and HMS Aurora on the China Station, where he and his men fought ashore during the Boxer Rebellion, for which he was made a Companion of the Bath and awarded Prussia’s Order of the Red Eagle. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Estimate C$ 400

Currently...C$300.00
Will close during Public Auction
697 cover   image1870 (March 17), London to Athens, Greece, 8d rate folded letter, with contents, franked with 6d dull violet (Plate 8) and 2d blue (Plate 13), tied by London E.C. "98" duplex (March 17), endorsed "Grece / via Marseille", with c.d.s. arrival backstamp, manuscript "12" (lepta) in red denoting amount due from the British Post Office to Greece, 2d with clipped perfs at top, a most attractive cover to a rare destination. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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Estimate C$ 250

Currently...C$150.00
Will close during Public Auction
698 cover   image1870 (May 2), Havana to Buenos Aires, Argentina, routed via London, carried through the London forwarding agents Eesser, Uthoff & Co., franked with Great Britain 1s green, Plate 4 applied for onward transmission and cancelled by London “105” duplex (2 May), the cover endorsed for conveyance via the City of Limerick and carried on the Tait & Co. / River Plate Royal Mail Steamship Company service, a notably short-lived transatlantic and River Plate route operating only from August 1869 to August 1870 and completing just twelve round voyages using four steamers, light filing fold, a scarce and attractive example, fresh and very fine. (S.G. 117) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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Estimate C$ 450

Currently...C$300.00
Will close during Public Auction
699 cover   image1874 (December 29), Waterford, Ireland, to Conception Bay, Newfoundland, insufficiently prepaid cover, franked with 2d blue and 1d red (Sc #29 Pl. 5, #33 Pl. 131) tied by Waterford (29 Dec) 445 numeral diamond barred obliterator duplex cancellation, black boxed INSUFFICIENTLY / PREPAID handstamp on arrival, crossed-out blue manuscript "4½" deficiency replaced by bold blue "12" (cents) for the converted rate due from the recipient, Harbour Grace (13 Jan, 1875) transit c.d.s. on front and ST. JOHNS • NEWFOUNDLAND (14 Jan) arrival backstamp, Bank of Ireland embossed seal on reverse, some edge fraying and light stains in places, else fine; an elusive destination. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Estimate C$ 150

Currently...C$80.00
Will close during Public Auction
700 cover   image1881 (October 4), Dundee, Scotland to Caracas, Venezuela, 4d single franking, folded letter, with commercial contents, franked with 4d gray brown (Plate 17), tied by Dundee 114 duplex, endorsed "Per French Mail", backstamped with blue Paris Etranger transit (5 Oct) and LIGNE A PAQ FR NO 2 (6 Oct) paquebot c.d.s., some ink smudging to postmark, else a remarkably fresh and attractive cover. (Sc. 84; S.G. 160) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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Estimate C$ 150

Currently...C$90.00
Will close during Public Auction
701 cover   image1882 (January 5), Isle of Wight to Ahmedabad, India, cover franked with 5d indigo, tied to cover by Shanklin squared circle, to Colonel Harpur at Camp Ahmedabad, Bombay, with "SEA / POST OFFICE / D / JAN. 12." c.d.s. and Ahmedabad Camp (21 Jan) backstamps, small central mark due to wax seal on reverse, else quite fresh and a rare usage from the Isle of Wight. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Estimate C$ 300

Currently...C$200.00
Will close during Public Auction
702 O 110 image1884, £1 brown-lilac Queen Victoria, watermark Three Crowns, lettered BG-GB, well-centred with intact perforations and margins fully clear of the design on all sides, some lightly soiled perfs, but a challenging stamp, fine-very fine. (S.G. 185, £3,000) (Image 1)

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Scott U$ 3,500

Currently...C$400.00
Will close during Public Auction
703 O 123 image1888, £1 brown-lilac Queen Victoria, watermark Three Orbs, lettered DR-RD, well-centred with intact perforations and margins fully clear of the design on all sides, bold cancellations, a couple slightly discolored perfs, but a difficult stamp, of superior centring than what is commonly found, with Scott assigning a 25% premium to the assigned catalogue value for such quality, very fine.
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Scott U$ 5,250

Currently...C$500.00
Will close during Public Auction
704 O 209 image1929, £1 black Postal Union Congress, a well-centred used example, centrally-struck with light c.d.s., lovely colour and detailed impression,very fine example of this iconic stamp of the British Empire. (S.G. 438, £600). (Image 1)

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Scott U$ 600

Currently...C$250.00
Will close during Public Auction
705 cover   image1931 (April 3), "City of Cairo", first flight crash cover, from London to Darwin, Australia, envelope franked with 1sh and 4d King George V definitives, tied by London F.S. machine cancellation, carried on the first experimental extension flight by Imperial Airways from Karachi to Australia aboard the City of Cairo**, which crashed at Kupang, Dutch East Indies (19 Apr)**, reverse with Darwin c.d.s. arrival backstamp (25 Apr), very fine.

The City of Cairo came down at Kupang on 19 April 1931 and was a total wreck. The crew escaped without injury, and the mails were recovered and carried on to Australia by Captain Kingsford-Smith. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Estimate C$ 100

Currently...C$60.00
Will close during Public Auction
706 cover   image1943 (April 23), censored cover to a British Prisoner of War in Japan, unfranked envelope with multiple Japanese red and violet handstamps, PC 90 censor tape affixed along the left edge, addressed to a British POW care of the Japanese Red Cross in Tokyo, the soldiers unit suggests he was captured in Java, with return address on back flap, apparently from his wife in Derby, United Kingdom, trivial wear from handling, of superior quality to what is often found, very fine (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Estimate C$ 120

Currently...C$80.00
Will close during Public Auction

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