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The "Dubois" Collection of Canada & BNA Postal History continued...

Pre-Confederation Quebec continued...
LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
61 cover   image1851 (May 9), Steamboat Letter from Montreal to Point Levis, rated "3" in black manuscript, struck with choice "STEAM BOAT LETTER QUEBEC / O" datestamp in red, next-day Quebec double split-ring backstamp, the contents apparently hastily written from the Montreal dockside, observing steamboat activity on the river, fresh and fine. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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Estimate C$ 120

Currently...C$80.00
Will close during Public Auction
62 cover   image1851 (September 19), Steamboat Letter from Montreal to Quebec City, with financial contents, rated "3" in black manuscript, struck with clear "STEAM BOAT LETTER QUEBEC / O" datestamp in black, next-day Quebec double split-ring backstamp, fine. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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Estimate C$ 100

Currently...C$60.00
Will close during Public Auction
63 cover   image1855 (April 30), first day of the new registry system, cover from Quebec to Berthier, blue cover bearing red "PAID / Quebec L.C. AP 30 1855" circular datestamp and "Paid 3" handstamp, with manuscript "Money Letter" notation and red "MONEY LETTER" straight-line handstamp, blue oval "Legislative Assembly, Canada" handstamp signed "N. Darche" (Noël Darche, Parti rouge representative for Chambly) struck in transit at Three Rivers (1 May) with red "REGISTERED" straight-line handstamp and next-day Berthier-en-Haut arrival backstamp, very fine; ex Harrison, with 2003 Philatelic Foundation certificate.

Illustrated in Canada's Registered Mail, 1802–1909 by Harrison, Arfken and Lussey (p. 28).

An exceptional cover bearing both 'Money Letter' and 'Registered' handstamps, documenting in a single piece the close of the money letter era and the inauguration of formal postal registration; the unique known example bearing the 'REGISTERED' handstamp on its first day of use. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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Estimate C$ 2,000

Currently...C$1,200.00
Will close during Public Auction
64 cover   image1856 (April 4), Montreal to Cobourg, folded entire franked with 1854–57 Great Britain 1d red-brown, perforated 16, Plate 12, Die II, lettered M-C, tied by target cancel, with Montreal double split-ring despatch c.d.s. and Cobourg arrival backstamp (8 Apr), the adhesive additionally "tied" by a vertical filing fold, fine and most unusual; with 2021 B.P.A. certificate. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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Estimate C$ 500

Currently...C$300.00
Will close during Public Auction
Prince Edward Island
LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
65 cover   image1814 (July 24), Charlottetown to London, England, folded letter datelined Charlotte Town, Prince Edward Island, July 24, 1814, rated 2/2 from Halifax to London, struck with the rimless circular PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND AUG 1, 1814 datestamp (Lehr P1), manuscript 'Pd to Halifax' in red, with Halifax fleuron struck in transit and London arrival c.d.s. on reverse, the letter's contents recording the loss of the ship Prince of Wales, the writer noting that only seven of the crew were saved after "she was run foul of, on the night of the 9th of May by a large ship, her side stove in, and foundered before daylight....," light splitting along folds in places, else a very fine example of the first datestamp used in all of Prince Edward Island; ex Carr and Griffiths.

Lehr records only 34 examples of this datestamp in private hands; this is an especially early strike, the first recorded use being (2 May 1814). (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6)

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Estimate C$ 500

Currently...C$350.00
Will close during Public Auction
66 cover   image1815 (November 1), the unique curved SHIP LETTER handstamp, folded letter from Charlottetown to London, England, double rated 4/4 in manuscript, struck with the rimless PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND datestamp (date in manuscript, Lehr P1) and curved SHIP LETTER handstamp (Lehr P113), manuscript 'Pd to Halifax 8d' in red, the SHIP LETTER handstamp crossed out, with Halifax fleuron c.d.s. in transit and light London arrival on reverse, originally intended for despatch by private ship, this cover was redirected via packet to Halifax instead, very fine; ex Carr and Griffiths.

THE ONLY RECORDED EXAMPLE OF THE CURVED SHIP LETTER HANDSTAMP; ONE OF THE RARITIES OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND POSTAL HISTORY. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Estimate C$ 2,000

Currently...C$1,200.00
Will close during Public Auction
67 cover   image1844 (May 24), Prince Edward Island to New York, with enclosure for forwarding to Mexico, pre-paid wrapper endorsed 'Via Halifax & Boston,' manuscript rate markings denoting the Prince Edward Island to U.S. border rate 1/1½d currency and U.S. inland postage 18¾¢ equating to 9d currency, totalling 1/10½d., with the earliest recorded circular PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND PAID cancellation struck in brown at lower left, backstamped with Prince Edward Island double split-ring (24 May) in black, the Prince Edward Island to U.S. border rate 1/1½d currency and U.S. inland postage 18¾¢ equating to 9d currency, totalling 1/10½d, horizontal filing fold and small hole from ink erosion at upper right, else a fine and impressive cover, the contents forwarded to Mexico.

The contents read in part: "Gentlemen, please forward the enclosed at first opportunity...", with docketing on reverse indicating the ultimate destination of Mexico. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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Estimate C$ 250

Currently...C$150.00
Will close during Public Auction
Rupert's Land & Western Mails
LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
68 cover   image1837 (August 13), Cumberland House to London, England, stampless folded letter, datelined 13th Augt 1837, rated "1/4" in manuscript, carried privately to York Factory for onward transmission to London by private ship, struck with boxed "DEAL / SHIP LETTER" handstamp, with London (25 Oct) arrival backstamp, written by Charles Ross, a Hudson's Bay Company fur trader, intact black wax seal with "CR" initials on reverse; very fine and rare.

Ross writes: "I have hardly had time to rest myself when I am suddenly & unexpectedly ordered off from this place. And I am once more about to recross the Mountains. My destination is the Columbia. And then I may perhaps be at peace but in the meanwhile the length & difficulties of the journey with my numerous family are under all the circumstances, sufficiently annoying...My poor Sister being now gone, and Mr Young, alas...there is now none in London to whom I can look for a sketch of passing events."

AN EXCEPTIONAL COVER; LIKELY THE EARLIEST RECORDED COVER FROM PRESENT-DAY SASKATCHEWAN IN PRIVATE HANDS.

Cumberland House was the first inland trading post established by the Hudson's Bay Company, founded by Samuel Hearne in 1774 on Cumberland Lake in present-day Saskatchewan. Its founding marked a pivotal strategic shift for the HBC; after nearly a century of waiting for Indigenous traders to bring furs to the bay, the Company was forced inland by the aggressive competition of Montreal-based traders who would become the North West Company. Cumberland House thus became the gateway to the entire western interior, serving as a crucial supply and communication depot on the main canoe route connecting the bay to the Athabasca and Columbia territories. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5)

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Estimate C$ 2,500

Currently...C$1,500.00
Will close during Public Auction
69 cover   image1846 (February 25), Middleton, England to Red River Settlement, folded letter datelined "Middleton, February 25th, 1846," addressed to Rev. John Smithhurst, Church Mission House, Salisbury Square, Fleet Street, London, struck with Wirksworth despatch circular datestamp and rated "4" in manuscript, with London arrival backstamp; the address and manuscript "100" at lower left crossed out, the cover having been handed directly to the Hudson's Bay Company for onward transmission to the Red River Settlement, very fine.

The letter is addressed to the Church Missionary Society's London headquarters before being redirected through Hudson's Bay Company channels to the Red River Settlement. It was written by William Buckley of Middleton, Derbyshire, a man of modest civic standing, serving as Registrar of Births and Deaths for the Brassington District and Assistant Overseer of Poor Rates, who was evidently a committed member of the evangelical community surrounding the Church Missionary Society. His correspondent, the Reverend John Smithhurst, was one of the CMS missionaries sent to the Red River Settlement in present-day Manitoba, arriving in 1838 and serving the English-speaking Protestant community there until 1847. Smithhurst established the parish of St. John's at the Red River and was a significant figure in the early Anglican missionary presence in Rupert's Land. This letter was sent during a period of significant tension between the HBC, the Métis population, and the missionary communities. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6)

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Estimate C$ 750

Currently...C$400.00
Will close during Public Auction
70 cover   image1856 (March 10), the latest recorded large Red River manuscript postmark, blue cover bearing clear manuscript "Red River March 10/56 B.N.A." c.d.s. and matching large "PAID" handstamp with manuscript "20c" double rate, Windsor (15 Apr) transit and Toronto (16 Apr) arrival backstamps, docketed "Recd April 16th, 1856 (& May 20th, his last — see within)," an exceptional rarity, and important piece of early Manitoba and Hudson's Bay Company history; ex Fraser.

THE LATEST RECORDED EXAMPLE OF WILLIAM ROSS'S FAMOUS RED RIVER MANUSCRIPT POSTMARK, AND THE ONLY KNOWN DOUBLE-RATE COVER.

The large (approximately 30mm) circular manuscript postmark was the work of William Ross (1825–1856), who was appointed postmaster for the Red River Settlement in 1855, and ran the office from his own home. Recorded examples of Ross's hand-drawn circular postmark span from 6 November 1855 to this cover of 10 March 1856, the series ending with his death from tuberculosis in May 1856. A unique example of a smaller manuscript postmark is recorded from 1858, after Ross's death. Ross's brother James briefly assumed the postmastership in 1860 before returning to Toronto. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Estimate C$ 5,000

Currently...C$3,000.00
Will close during Public Auction

Canada and Provinces Stamps & Postal History

Stampless Postal History
LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
101   imageHudson's Bay Company Promissory Note, Five Shillings, 1820, no. 392, signed in London on May 11, 1820 by William Smith, issued at York Factory on November 15, 1820, signed by Governor William Williams and Accountant John Spencer, exceptionally fresh, particularly desirable as such, scarce and very fine. (Image 1)

Estimate C$ 500

Currently...C$250.00
Will close during Public Auction
102 cover   image1835 (June 9), Perth, Upper Canada, to Rutherglen, Scotland, trans-Atlantic stampless folded letter, struck with Perth double split-ring despatch, manuscript date , straight-line PAID handstamp at upper left, with red manuscript "1/2" pre-payment to the port of exit alongside, boxed LIVERPOOL / SHIP LETTER on reverse, crossed-out black "1/8" Sterling replaced by thick-stroked "1/7" due representing 1s inland postage, 6d landing charge, and 1d local charges including double straight-line GLASGOW / PENNY POST and boxed halfpenny wheel tax handstamp, partial Glasgow split-ring (6 Aug) receiver on reverse, fine-very fine.

Written by a doctor in Lanark, Upper Canada, to his surgeon brother Joseph, the Doctor, among other things, rails against a "charlatan immigrant Doctor" named Mr. W. Naughton, a man of "very irregular habits" who lacked a diploma and eventually "made a very disreputable elopement leaving his wife entirely dependent upon her relatives." He notes a winter so severe that "cattle died partly from starvation and partly from the intensity of the frost." (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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Estimate C$ 150

Currently...C$80.00
Will close during Public Auction
103 cover   image1839 (September 26), Toronto to Bannockburn, Stirling, from the 93rd Highland Regiment of Foot, via New York, stampless entire, two strikes of the large black double-circle CITY OF TORONTO / U.C. (Sep 23) dispatch mark and red New York (Sep 30) transit, endorsed "per Steam" at upper left, black boxed PAID handstamp and red manuscript "9" and "50" pre-payment marks, scored-out black manuscript "2/8" replaced by "3/10," reverse with red SHIP LETTER / PORTSMOUTH handstamp and red LONDON (16 Oct 1839) transit, intact wax seal, very fine.

Written by James Neilson, Acting Quarter Master of the 93rd Highland Regiment of Foot, the letter addresses complications regarding a Bill of Exchange for £220 on the Bank of Upper Canada, sent to the prominent tartan manufacturers William Wilson and Son in Bannockburn. Neilson notes Colonel Spark's satisfaction with previous shipments of tartan and discusses arrangements with Army Agents Messrs. Cox and Co. to secure further funds. The 93rd Highlanders had been instrumental in suppressing the Rebellions of 1837–38. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Estimate C$ 150

Currently...C$90.00
Will close during Public Auction
104 cover   image1840 (May 1), Darlington to Guernsey, transatlantic stampless folded letter with cross-written family contents, originally charged 9d (currency) plus 18¾c with further 25c "Freight" money steamship levy, the steamship rate not recognised upon transit in Bristol and additionally rated 8d as a ship letter, Darlington double split-ring in blue with manuscript dater despatch and dual strikes of framed red PAID at upper left, manuscript endorsement "to be sent pr. Great Western Steamer," neat red Kingston (4 May) transit c.d.s., carried via New York (9 May) arriving Bristol (23 May) and struck with bold two-line BRISTOL SHIP LETTER, filing folds, else fine. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5)

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Estimate C$ 200

Currently...C$100.00
Will close during Public Auction
105 cover   image1840 (November 3), Toronto to Utica, New York, via Lewiston, with steamship content, stampless folded letter, with red double-circle TORONTO / U.C. despatch datestamp, red Lewiston NY (10 Nov) exchange office c.d.s., and black boxed PAID handstamp on face, blue "18¾" (cents) for U.S. internal postage from the border to Utica and brownish-red "4½" (pence) for the Canadian inland rate to the border, very fine.

Written by William Bradley to his brother, the letter recounts a journey from New York to Toronto marked by mishaps throughout — slipping into a canal and getting wet "as high as the wast band of my pantaloons" while boarding a line boat, delays at Rochester landing when the steamer Gore failed to arrive due to "stormey" weather, and a near-disastrous collision with a rock near Darlington Wharf in a "strong gale" and "hevy storm of rain hale, snow" that "nearley stopped the Old wench." Despite the vessel's subsequent sinking on a later trip, Bradley arrived safely in Toronto to begin work as a shoemaker. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5)

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Estimate C$ 120

Currently...C$60.00
Will close during Public Auction
106 cover   image1844 (Dec. 8), Amherstburg, Upper Canada, to Troy, New York, "Underground Railroad" letter, via Detroit, cross-border stampless folded letter, struck with red circular AMHERSTBURG / U.C. (Dec. 8) departure datestamp and blue Detroit / Mich. (Dec. 10) transit c.d.s., red straight-line PAID handstamp, manuscript "4½" (pence) Canadian inland postage and manuscript "20" (cents) U.S. rate for distance over 400 miles to Troy, reverse with two-line "WINDSOR, C.W. / 9 DEC 1844" transit, the odd small spot of discoloration, else fine, with fascinating and historically-relevant contents.

Written by Reverend Isaac J. Rice (1808–1880), a white missionary from Ohio and Auburn Seminary graduate who settled at Fort Malden in 1838, the letter provides a detailed account of the Amherstburg Mission, a vital terminal on the Underground Railroad. Rice describes the immense struggles of the fugitive slave population, whom he calls a "distressed People" facing "prejudices against them" and subsistence living on low wages, reports on the mission's school of 40 to 50 students, and his desperate search for a "solid Teacher" to prevent the institution from falling to "nought." The content takes a provocative turn as Rice criticises fellow abolitionists, questioning why large donations were diverted from his mission to the Dawn Settlement, and noting of Arthur Tappan, a famed American abolitionist, "He has not noticed us." Rice is historically noted for living in shared poverty with the refugees, often selling his own furniture and watch to provide food for the thousands of "slaves rushing in." (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5)

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Estimate C$ 500

Currently...C$300.00
Will close during Public Auction
107 cover   imageRed River Settlement, 1854 (February 12), Ross Correspondence to Toronto, endorsed "care of Dr. Burns/ Toronto / Canada West," entering the mails with "Pembina M. Ty. / Feb 12/54" manuscript marking, struck black oval "United States / 6d" exchange office handstamp at upper right, reverse with faint Windsor (13 Mar) transit and next-day Toronto receiver, with corresponding docketing on front "Recd Mar 15th", remarkably fresh, very fine. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Estimate C$ 400

Currently...C$200.00
Will close during Public Auction
108 cover   imageRed River Settlement, 1854 (April 19), Ross Correspondence to Toronto, entering the mails with "Pembina M. Ty. / April 19/54" manuscript marking, struck with black oval "United States / 6d" exchange office handstamp, partial Upper Canada transit mark at upper right, likely Windsor, reverse with faint Toronto receiver (May 15), with corresponding docketing on front "Recd May 15th", scarce and very fine. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Estimate C$ 400

Currently...C$200.00
Will close during Public Auction
109 cover   image1854 (December), stampless cover from Lima, Peru, to Montreal, to Louisa McDonald, endorsed "via Panama y de Los Estados Unidos", with directive at lower left "care of P.W. Cooper, Esq / Montreal P. Office / Lima, Peru S.A.", struck with partial American STEAMSHIP / 20 circular handstamp, with Montreal LC double split-ring arrival backstamp (13 Dec), some creasing and edge faults, repaired at left, but a rare origin.

This addressee is likely Marie-Louise McDonald, sister of Andrew McDonald, and wife of Casimir Fidele Papineau. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Estimate C$ 800

Currently...C$500.00
Will close during Public Auction
Province of Canada - Pence Issues
LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
110 O 1 image1851, 3d red Beaver on laid paper, with prominent laid lines, four ample to large margins all around, struck with black target cancel, pleasing colour, an attractive example, very fine. (Image 1)

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Unitrade C$ 1,600

Currently...C$200.00
Will close during Public Auction

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