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The Per-Olof Jansson Collection of Admiral Rates & Destinations continued...

Usages to U.P.U. Destinations continued...
LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
482 cover   imageU.P.U. Destinations, printed matter rates, group of eleven items, varied selection including illustrated Canadian Pacific Railway stationery cards, 1913 postcard to Moscow paying the 1c printed-matter rate, uprated 1c cover to Russia addressed to Reval, present-day Tallinn, Estonia, triple 2c per 2oz printed-matter rate to Germany, and 1c wrapper uprated for the 2c per 2oz rate to Germany, also examples to Japan and Cuba, together with other useful usages; overall fresh and chiefly fine to very fine. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6)

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Estimate C$ 300

Currently...C$150.00
Will close during Public Auction
483 cover   imageU.P.U. Destinations, military mail, group of four, comprising 1915 2c postal stationery card to a Canadian Prisoner of War in Germany; and three First World War covers to Belgian servicemen interned in the Netherlands, including 1917 censored mail from Quebec to Amersfoort, 1918 censored cover from Lanadale to a member of the 4th Corps of Belgian Volunteers, and 1918 cover from Oshawa to Amersfoort; an interesting and fine-very fine group of wartime mail. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Estimate C$ 150

Currently...C$90.00
Will close during Public Auction

Stamps & Postal History of Canada

Pre-Stamp & Stampless Postal History
LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
501 cover   image1676 (January 4), New France judicial decree naming Mississippi explorer Louis Jolliet, single-page manuscript document issued at Quebec by Louis-Théandre Chartier de Lotbinière, Lieutenant-General of the Prévôté of Quebec, boldly signed “L. Chartier” at foot, arising from a complaint made at approximately ten o’clock the previous evening by Louis du Moustier, Sieur de Montreuil, Gentleman-in-Ordinary of the King’s Chamber and former Musketeer of His Majesty, together with merchant Claude Bocquet, formally reported by royal notary and court clerk Gilles Rageot against an exceptional group of early Quebec figures including Charles Bazire, his servant Charles Macart, Pierre Bécard de Grandville, Louis Jolliet, the wives of Bazire and Jolliet, Marie Couillard, wife of Jacques de Lalande, and Marie Bissot, Chartier ordering Bazire, Macart, Grandville and Jolliet personally summoned to appear before him at four o’clock that afternoon to be heard and interrogated regarding the complaint; written on laid paper in a fine hand, folds, staining, and edge faults, but remarkably complete and otherwise well preserved for document of this period; among the earliest documents originating in present-day Canada in private hands.

The decree was issued less than two years after Jolliet’s return from his celebrated 1673 Mississippi expedition with Jacques Marquette, and only three months after his October 1675 marriage to Claire-Françoise Bissot; Jolliet was one of the colony’s most prominent explorers, cartographers and merchants, while Bazire was Receiver General of the King’s Domain, merchant, seigneur and former agent of the Compagnie des Indes occidentales, Bécard de Grandville belonged to the colonial military establishment, and the Macart, Couillard and Bissot families were connected with some of Quebec’s earliest commercial and founding families. The judicial officials were significant figures in New France: Louis-Théandre Chartier de Lotbinière served as lieutenant-general of the Prévôté de Québec after earlier holding senior offices in the colony’s judiciary, while Gilles Rageot, who recorded the complaint, was both clerk of the Quebec court and a royal notary, the first notary in New France to receive his commission directly from the Crown. (Image 1)

Estimate C$ 7,500

Currently...C$5,000.00
Will close during Public Auction
502 cover   image1802 (January 23), Montreal straight-line on folded cover to Quebec City, rated "9" in red manuscript, reverse with above-average strike of Montreal two-line datestamp, an extremely early example, recorded only used from 1802-1810, light filing fold, else very fine; ex DeVolpi. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Estimate C$ 200

Currently...C$120.00
Will close during Public Auction
503 cover   image1802 (February 8), folded letter from Montreal to Quebec from Loyalist Abraham Cuyler to Lieutenant Joseph Bouchette at the Surveyor General’s Office, concerning the official survey of Grantham Township , endorsed “postage p’d” and struck with straightline PAID beside manuscript “9” prepaid rate, the reverse with strong two-line MONTREAL / 8 FEB 1802 datestamp, some internal fold separation and old transparent reinforcement with paper loss at right, partially readable contents, else fine; ex DeVolpi.

Abraham Cornelius Cuyler (1742-1810), former mayor of Albany and prominent Loyalist exile, had received 4,000 acres in Farnham Township in 1795 and moved to Montreal in 1802. Joseph Bouchette (1774-1841), already an experienced draftsman in the Surveyor General’s Office, had returned there in 1801 as Samuel Holland’s intended successor; his formal appointment as Surveyor General came in 1804. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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Estimate C$ 150

Currently...C$100.00
Will close during Public Auction
504 cover   image1802 (October 2), transatlantic Falmouth packet folded letter from Paisley, Scotland, to Montreal, Lower Canada, with clear two-line HALIFAX straight-line transit, addressed to Messrs. Walter Buchanan & Co., Merchants, Montreal, bearing red manuscript British packet accounting “2/1”, faint framed PAID / OCT 7 / 1802 datestamp and prominent red manuscript “2/9”, the reverse with black straight-line PAISLEY despatch and HALIFAX / NOV 10 / 1802 transit, unusually fresh and very fine.

Paisley was one of Britain’s rapidly industrializing textile centres; the letter includes a discussion of adapting steam technology to Canadian conditions, the writer noting that “all the cotton mills is goin by steam engins” and suggesting that steam “would do very well for wheat mill in your place as the water is so soon to be frose”; together with details on Canadian wheat and potash exports. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6)

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Estimate C$ 200

Currently...C$120.00
Will close during Public Auction
505 cover   image1818 (February 20), cross-border printed matter from New York to Montreal, with contents comprising New York Wholesale Prices Current, printed by Day & Turner, struck with 26mm circular New York despatch c.d.s. (recorded 1816-1834), rated 18½ in manuscript from New York to the border, converted to 11d currency, with an additional 9d collect for delivery to Montreal, denoted by the 1N8 total, typical file fold, else unusually fresh and fine-very fine; ex Palmer. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5)

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Estimate C$ 150

Currently...C$90.00
Will close during Public Auction
506   image1820s/1830s, group of four York, Upper Canada stampless covers, comprising 1822 (24 Jan) cover from Niagara to York struck with NIAGARA / UPPER CANADA single-circle c.d.s. and rated 2/6 collect, representing five times the 6d rate; 1823 (10 Feb) folded letter with YORK straight-line handstamp on reverse, as most recorded examples of this marking are found; 1829 (20 Apr) cover struck with black York double-circle and rated FREE in red; and c.1830s cover bearing red YORK / UP-CAN handstamp and red straight-line FREE; two of these to Alexander Hamilton, Postmaster of Queenston, some small faults, two with slight staining in places, but a useful group, mostly fine. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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Estimate C$ 100

Currently...C$50.00
Will close during Public Auction
507 cover   image1823 (November 13), Cornwall straight-line on stampless folded letter, struck on reverse as usual, with contents signed by George Jarvis, rated FREE and addressed to William Hands, the Postmaster of Sandwich, a much clearer example than usually seen, a choice example of this difficult strike. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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Estimate C$ 150

Currently...C$90.00
Will close during Public Auction
508 cover   image1829 (June), stampless folded letter from Kingston to Montreal, bearing red two-line “KINGSTON. / JUNE 29” datestamp, to prominent Montreal merchant Thomas Blackwood, with large red manuscript notation at upper right, the contents comprising a two-page letter written at Kingston on 22 June discussing the proposed sale of Peter Grant’s Kingston property, another lot near Belleville, creditor claims, rents and questions of title, including an earlier family settlement or entail said to date from 1802, fine-very fine, a desirable example of this scarce cancellation.

The sender, Allan MacLean, was an established Kingston lawyer and public figure, while Thomas Blackwood was a prominent Montreal merchant deeply involved in Great Lakes trade and later the first chairman of Montreal’s Committee of Trade. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5)

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Estimate C$ 250

Currently...C$140.00
Will close during Public Auction
509 cover   image1830 (May 19), Falmouth packet folded letter from Douglas, Scotland, to Perth, Upper Canada, with exceptional Presbyterian settlement contents, written at Douglas and addressed to James Wilson Esq., Perth, despatched through Rothesay with ROTHESAY / 23 MY / 1830 datestamp, carried by the Falmouth packet Nightingale, departing Falmouth 7 Jun and reaching Halifax 22 Jul, thence through Quebec with red QUEBEC / AUG 10 fleuron, rated 2s 5½d Sterling from Rothesay to Halifax, including Scottish wheel tax, subsequently re-rated at Quebec for packet and inland charges to Upper Canada, with extensive contemporary manuscript accounting on face, light filing fold and trivial stain at upper right, else very fine; ex Steinhart, mounted on his album page.

The lengthy enclosed letter, signed Alex. Stewart and attributable to Rev. Alexander Stewart of Douglas, concerns the recruitment of a Church of Scotland minister for the emerging Presbyterian congregation at Perth, Upper Canada; Stewart discusses the difficulty of securing a suitable clergyman, his dealings with the Presbytery of Lanark, prospective candidates and their reluctance to leave Scotland for uncertain colonial appointments (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6)

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Estimate C$ 300

Currently...C$150.00
Will close during Public Auction
510 cover   image1832 (April 3), cross-border folded letter from Hallowell, Upper Canada, to Torrington, Connecticut, rated “25” in manuscript for the United States portion and “Paid 7½” to the frontier, comprising 4½d inland postage plus 3d ferriage from Kingston/Wolfe Island to the United States, with neatly struck Hallowell double split-ring and manuscript date; a scarce and unusual rate, with small tear at top, otherwise fine.

The letter's recipient, Erastus Hodges (1781-1847) was a prominent merchant, manufacturer, and entrepreneur in Torrington; in 1832, he was expanding his business from agriculture into clockmaking, a subject addressed in the letter. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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Estimate C$ 80

Currently...C$50.00
Will close during Public Auction
511   image1836/1837, pair of transatlantic folded letters from Toronto to England, illustrating the elimination of the Niagara River ferriage fee, each struck with CITY OF TORONTO / U.C. double-circle and endorsed “via New York”, comprising 1836 (7 Nov) with straight-line PAID 9&25, the 9d Canadian charge including the 2d ferriage fee across the Niagara River, with a fine framed LIVERPOOL SHIP LETTER handstamp on reverse, and 1837 (9 Oct) with red PAID 7&25, reflecting the reduced rate after abolition of the ferriage fee in March 1837, wax seal cut from reverse; fine to very fine, an elusive and particularly desirable pair demonstrating the rate change. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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Estimate C$ 200

Currently...C$120.00
Will close during Public Auction
512 cover   image1840 (October 9), transatlantic folded letter from Harling, England, to Barton, Upper Canada, via New York, endorsed “Via New York, Liverpool Ship”, prepaid 8d sterling as an outward ship letter and carried by American sailing packet to New York, struck with Harling despatch and bold PAID SHIP LETTER LONDON crown datestamp (10 Oct), subsequently rated for United States transit and Canadian inland postage, the combined charges amounting to 1s9d currency collect, with Queenston, U.C. transit (12 Nov), fine-very fine; ex Steinhart, written-up on his album page. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6)

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Estimate C$ 250

Currently...C$120.00
Will close during Public Auction
513 cover   image1841 (April 7), Montreal to Madeira Island, stampless folded letter, rated 1/2 in manuscript, postmarked with crisp Montreal L.C. double-circle despatch strike, endorsed "p. Halifax Steamship to Liverpool", then via forwarding agents Symonds & Son of London, with red London c.d.s. backstamp (3 May), a delightfully fresh letter to this exotic destination, particularly desirable as such forwarded mail often has the forwarder's address crudely crossed-out, fresh and very 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
514 cover   image1841 (October 7), Port Burwell manuscript cancel, stampless money letter from Postmaster J.P. Bellairs to Receiver General Dunn in Kingston, endorsed "Money" and "Free" at top, with "Port Burwell / 7 Oct 1841" manuscript cancel at upper left, vertical fold, else fresh and very fine. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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Estimate C$ 150

Currently...C$90.00
Will close during Public Auction
515 cover   image1844 (December 6), "Paid at Quebec" crowned-circle on folded letter from Quebec to New York, commercial letter to D.S. Kennedy, agent for the Bank of Montreal in New York, struck with red PAID AT QUEBEC L.C. crowned-circle and matching Quebec double split-ring despatch, prepaid 11½d currency, equivalent to 10d sterling, for the 201–300 mile Canadian charge to the United States border, with 18¾c United States postage onward to New York, usual filing folds, else very fine and attractive, with contents concerning insurance on goods aboard the barque Prince George. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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Estimate C$ 120

Currently...C$80.00
Will close during Public Auction
516 cover   image1845 (July 14), official stampless folded letter with Windsor straight-line, to the Honourable William Morris, Receiver General at Montreal, bearing the scarce red two-line “WINDSOR. C.W. / 14 JUL 1845” datestamp, endorsed “On Her Majesty’s Service” with manuscript “1/8” rate at upper right, the reverse with red MONTREAL / JUL 17 / 1845 / L.C. arrival double split-ring, the enclosed letter headed “Customs House / Port of Sandwich / Windsor 11th July 1845” and signed by J. F. Elliott, Collector of Customs, advising that £188 Currency had been deposited at the Windsor agency of the Bank of Montreal to the Receiver General’s credit, light aging and filing folds crossing cancellation, otherwise remarkably clean and attractive, the Windsor cancellation typically struck faintly. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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Estimate C$ 180

Currently...C$100.00
Will close during Public Auction
517 cover   image1846 (March 17), double-weight transatlantic private-ship folded letter from London, England, to Hamilton, via New York and Queenston, addressed to George Tiffany Esq., docketed “17th March," sent outside the mails by private American vessel to New York, where it entered the U.S. post with red NEW YORK / MAY 4 c.d.s. and matching SHIP handstamp, rated “22” cents in blue manuscript for the double 10c U.S. inland charge over 300 miles plus 2c ship-letter fee, then carried to Queenston, where the U.S. charge was converted to 1s 1½d Currency and a further 9d Cy Canadian double inland rate added, the total 1s 10½d Cy collect charge noted at upper right, with QUEENSTON / MAY 6 / 1846 / U.C. datestamp and red HAMILTON / MY 7 / 1846 / A / C.W. arrival on reverse, very fine, an unusual routing, of longer duration but lesser cost compared with the faster and more expensive regular Cunard service; ex Steinhart, on his album page.

The lengthy enclosed letter, signed Hans Busk at Great Cumberland Place, London, concerns a contentious property sale entrusted to George Tiffany in Hamilton, with Busk sharply criticizing interference in the transaction while insisting that the sale proceed. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5)

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Estimate C$ 250

Currently...C$180.00
Will close during Public Auction
518 cover   image1846 (August 18), double-weight cross-border stampless folded letter from Quebec to New York, with two strikes of the Crowned Circle “PAID / AT / QUEBEC L.C.” handstamp, addressed to prominent New York merchant banker D. S. Kennedy, endorsed “paid" in manuscript and rated 1/11 in red, struck with two PAID AT QUEBEC crowned circle markings, alongside Quebec double split-ring despatch, on entry into the United States mails rated “20” cents due, with contents signed by cashier T. Bolton of the Quebec branch of the Bank of Montreal, usual file folds, else fine-very fine and attractive. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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Estimate C$ 120

Currently...C$150.00
Will close during Public Auction

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