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Postal History continued...

Austria (Lombardy-Venetia) continued...
LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
21 cover   imageLombardy-Venetia, 1835 (June 3), stampless folded letter from Milan
to Paris, struck with bold red two-line MILANO / GIUGNO 3 despatch
marking and matching red oval AUTRICHE / P. HUNINGUE entry
handstamp at upper left, with red L.T. transit marking at lower
right and manuscript 15 (décimes) due, the reverse with blue Paris
receiver (10 Jun), clean and attractive, carried northward across
the Alps before entering France through the Huningue exchange
office, light wrinkles, fine-very fine. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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22 cover   imageLombardy–Venetia, 1840 (January 23), double-rate folded letter from
Verona to Lyon, France, via Sardinia, stampless folded letter
struck with red two-line VERONA / 23 GEN. despatch handstamp and
bold red T.S.1 Transit Sarde marking, an early usage, entering
France through the SARD. / 2 PONT-DE-B. 2 exchange office (27 Jan),
reverse with manuscript 28 carantani prepayment, representing twice
the 14-carantani rate for a letter weighing between ½ and 1 loth,
Lyon (27 Jan) receiver and charged 20 décimes on arrival, an
attractive usage. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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23 cover   imageLombardy-Venetia, 1840 (October 1), double-rate commercial wrapper
from Venice, to Lyon, France, via Sardinia, struck with blue
VENEZIA / 1 OTT. despatch handstamp and red TS (Transit Sarde)
marking, entering France through the SARD. / 2 PONT-DE-B. 2
exchange office (6 Oct) after transit via Voghera, charged 20
décimes on arrival as a double-weight letter, representing twice
the 10-décime base rate; the reverse without the usual Austrian
prepayment notation, otherwise a clean and attractive early
Convention usage from the Adriatic. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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24 cover   imageLombardy-Venetia, 1842 (September 29), folded letter from Brescia,
Lombardy-Venetia, to St. Etienne, France, via Sardinia, with
silk-trade contents, stampless folded letter struck with ornate red
BRESCIA / 29 SET despatch handstamp, matching red FRANCA marking
indicating prepayment to the frontier and bold red T.S.1.(Transit
Sarde, Rayon 1) handstamp, entering France through the SARD. / 2
PONT-DE-B. 2 exchange office (3 Oct), the reverse with manuscript
14 (carantani) prepayment, Lyon transit and St. Etienne receiver,
charged 11 décimes on arrival, very fine. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5)

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25 cover   imageLombardy-Venetia, 1843, “Frontiera” pair from Milan and Verona to
St. Etienne, France, illustrating border prepayment through
Sardinia, two stampless folded letters, the first from Milan (24
Jan) struck with red boxed AFFR.TA FRONTIERA, the second from
Verona (7 Jun) bearing red boxed FRANCA FRONTIERA, both routed
through Sardinia with red circular SARD. / 2 PONT-DE-B. 2
exchange-office marking (Noël 1084) and red T.S.1.(Transit Sarde 1)
handstamp, the reverse of each with manuscript prepayment notation
of 6 or 12 carantani to the frontier, both charged 11 décimes on
arrival, an attractive matched pair showing two distinct Austrian
“Frontiera” markings used on the same cross-border route. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8) (Image 9) (Image 10)

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26 cover   imageLombardy-Venetia, 1844 (July 16), unpaid folded letter from Milan
to St. Etienne, France, via Sardinia, stampless folded letter, with
contents regarding the silk trade, struck with fine black ornate
double-ring MILANO / 16 / LUG. despatch handstamp, red TS (Transit
Sarde) marking and red circular SARD. / 16 JUIL. 44 / PONT-DE-B.
entry handstamp (Noël 1082), unusually sent without prepayment to
the frontier and showing manuscript 10 at upper left for the
combined Austrian-Sardinian charge, with 14 décimes due from the
recipient, comprising 10 décimes foreign transit and 4 décimes
French inland postage, the reverse with Lyon transit and St.
Etienne receiver (20 Jul), a particularly attractive usage, very
fine. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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27 cover   imageLombardy-Venetia, 1845 (August 11), folded letter from Brescia,
Lombardy-Venetia, to Lyon, France, via Sardinia, with extensive
silk-trade contents, stampless folded letter struck with black
straight-line BRESCIA despatch marking with date below, red TS
(Transit Sarde) handstamp and fine red circular SARD. / 2
PONT-DE-B. 2 entry marking (14 Aug), the reverse showing manuscript
26 carantani prepayment to the frontier and Lyon receiver (15 Aug),
charged 13 décimes on arrival for a single-weight letter,
comprising the Austrian and Sardinian transit charges together with
French inland postage, a fine-very fine example of the trans-Alpine
treaty route. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5)

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28 cover   imageLombardy-Venetia, 1850/64, Austro-French treaty routes, five
stampless folded letters to France via Austria or Switzerland,
group from Milan and Venice to Paris, Lyon and Guebwiller, showing
a range of treaty and frontier markings including AUTRICHE CULOZ,
AUTRICHE NICE, AUTRICHE HUNINGUE and BEAU FR. DE BALE, and
exchange-office datestamps, with manuscript 8, 10 and 15 décime
charges reflecting differing weights and routings the prevailing
postal arrangements, several with commercial contents; generally
very fine with clear strikes, and interesting study, with some
letters traveling directly through the Austrian exchange system,
while others crossing Switzerland in closed mails. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8) (Image 9) (Image 10)

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29 cover   imageLombardy-Venetia, 1853 (June 15), triple-rate folded letter from
Milan to Paris via Chiasso and Basel, with financial contents from
the Milanese banking and trading house Balabio & Besana, including
a Borsa di Milano market report, struck with black MILANO despatch
c.d.s. (15 Jun), prominent red two-line VIA DI / CHIASSO transit
handstamp and crisp red circular AUTRICHE / 18 JUIN 53 / BALE 2 DE
BALE French entry marking (Noël 851), the front with small
manuscript 8 Austrian accountancy notation and bold 90 centimes due
in France, representing a triple-weight assessment, usual filing
folds and light wrinkles, fine-very fine. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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Bahamas
LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
30 cover   image1896 (Aug. 18), registered cover from Nassau to Montreal, Canada,
franked with two 1d carmine-rose and a single 2½d ultramarine, tied
by Registered Nassau c.d.s. (18 Aug) on Sun Life Assurance Co.
cover to Montreal, with Montreal squared-circle precursor receiver
struck on front and New York Reg’y Div. oval transit backstamp (22
Aug), a fresh and visually striking registered usage to Canada,
very fine; ex Provera. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Barbados
LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
31 cover   image1868 (October 25), transatlantic mourning cover from Barbados to
London, England, franked with 1s black Britannia, tied by crisp “1”
bootheel obliterator with Barbados (25 Oct) datestamp alongside,
addressed to Dalston, London, red London (3 Nov) receiver on
reverse, lght vertical filing crease well clear of the adhesive,
minor aging, fine. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Belgium
LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
32 cover   image1920 (March 27), pair of registered postal stationery cards from
Malmédy to Rorschach, Switzerland, showing six values of the
Malmédy overprinted issue, the 5c green card uprated with 35c and
50c values, the 10c red card uprated with 10c, 15c, 20c and 40c
values, all tied by Malmédy (27 Mar) datestamps, each endorsed
“Recommandé” and with Rorschach (30 Mar) receiver, fresh and very
fine, dating from the transitional Belgian administration of Eupen
and Malmédy following the Treaty of Versailles. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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British East Africa
LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
33 cover   image1942 (May 29), censored active-service air letter card from East
Africa to Likoma Island, repeatedly redirected through Portuguese
and Belgian Africa over six months, bearing E.A./A.P.O. 71 (29
May), "On active service" and printed "VIA ALA LITTORIA"
directions, East African censor handstamp and South African censor
tape, manuscript "Try P.W.A." endorsements, Nairobi (19 Jun),
Lobito, Élizabethville, Mozambique (27 Jul), Beira (4 Aug),
Linokana (14 Aug), Porto (12 Sep) and Bela Vista (18 Nov) markings,
extensive handling wear as expected, but a well-traveled cover full
of character. The letter, addressed to a mission monitor care of
the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa at Lumbaulu Mission,
was likely misdirected by the inclusion of "P.E. Africa" although
Likoma Island lay in British Nyasaland. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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British Guiana
LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
34 cover   image1820 (August 19), ship letter from Demerara, British Guiana, to
Glasgow, with contemporary account of “unprecedented” financial
distress in the West Indies, stampless folded letter from Buchanans
& Co. to Messrs. Peter Buchanan & Co., marked “Duplicate” and sent
by the brig Shanna, with bold boxed BRITISH / SHIP LETTER arrival
handstamp, Glasgow arrival c.d.s. (19 Oct) and manuscript 1/7 rate,
vertical filing fold, otherwise sound. The letter provides an
account of the severe post-Napoleonic commercial depression
affecting the West Indies, the writers stating that “the distress
in the Country at present for want of money is unprecedented to any
former period,” noting that sales had fallen off significantly, and
providing detailed market information for colonial commodities. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5)

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British North America - New Brunswick
LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
35 cover   imageNew Brunswick, 1843 (September 18), stampless folded Board of
Education letter from Woodstock to Fredericton, New Brunswick,
concerning the qualification of a parish school teacher, bearing
red Woodstock (18 Sep) double split-ring, manuscript "1/3" and "3/"
rate calculations, Fredericton (19 Sep) receiver, contents partial
and trimmed on three sides, else fine. The contents, from the
Carleton County Board of Education, through A. K. Smedes Wetmore,
W. Munro and D. L. Carman, certifies to the lieutenant governor
that Alfred F. Gallop had been examined as to his qualifications,
character and principles and was considered fit to serve as a
parish school teacher. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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36 cover   imageNew Brunswick, 1853 (March 19), registered stampless folded letter
from Dalhousie to Chatham, New Brunswick, struck with crisp red
Dalhousie N.B. Paid datestamp, manuscript "9" and "Registered
Letter No. 71," with Dalhousie (20 Mar) and Chatham (21 Mar)
backstamps, quite fresh and an elusive registered use, very fine.
Writing from Dalhousie, attorney C. Simonds provides a detailed
breakdown of a debt collection case against Frederick Arsenecan
conducted on behalf of Jonah Samuel. Interestingly, the third page
contains an itemized manifest of the physical bank notes originally
enclosed directly within this lettersheet (“Money Sent”), including
a £5 Central Bank of New Brunswick note and three separate £1 Bank
of British North America notes. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5)

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British North America - Prince Edward Island
LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
37 cover   imagePrince Edward Island, 1847 (January 22), stampless folded distraint
and auction notice to "Lot 59" of Georgetown, hand-rated "2"
collect, with manuscript request that the Georgetown postmaster
forward it at the first opportunity, Prince Edward Island (22 Jan)
double-arc datestamp on reverse, addressed to James Young, small
tear from top margin and filing folds, old adhesive removed and
sensibly report, an interesting letter of local interest. The
contents comprise a public auction notice compiled by the regional
Bailiff, John Mantis, acting on behalf of Lawrence Sullivan, Esq,
outlining the seizure of goods and chattels ("distrained for Rent")
slated for public auction on February 1, 1847. The listed tenant
property targeted for liquidation spans several local island farms,
including the premises of Henry Moors (Lot 61; distrained for 4
cows, 1 heifer, and 2 sheep), William Moors (1 horse and 1 stack of
hay), Jacob Senebaugh (1 horse, 2 cows, 1 steer, 1 heifer, and 2
pigs), Thomas Hicken (1 mare, 1 cow, 2 pigs, and 1 stack of oats),
Robert Dixon (1 horse, 3 cows, and 2 heifers), and John Steel (1
horse, 2 cows, and 2 stacks of oats). In a manuscript note to the
recipient, James Young, Bailiff Mantis explicitly orders: "Please
tear off this & post the above at the X roads immediately and tell
every one of them that I shall be there to sell unless they each
settle with me by Saturday the 30th inst." (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5)

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Canada
LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
38 cover   image1840 (November 4), military mourning letter from Chambly, Lower
Canada, to London, endorsed "Favored by D. S. / K. Maclaren Esqr.,"
hand-rated "2" due, with Dover (2 Jan 1841) and red British (3 Jan)
datestamps on reverse, with contents signed Edward S. Glen,
reporting that Lord FitzRoy Somerset, military secretary to the
Duke of Wellington, had offered him a commuted allowance or the
choice of rejoining his regiment, and writes, "I have agreed to
join my Regt. at Sierra Leone... having answered I would join being
in good health," fresh and very fine. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5)

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39 cover   image1848 (June 22), cross-border stampless folded letter from
Waddington, New York, to Quebec, posted at Williamsburg, Upper
Canada, with reddish-orange West Williamsburg U.C. West (22 Jun)
double-ring datestamp and manuscript 1sh1/2d rate, Montreal (23
Jun) transit and Quebec (24 Jun) receiver on reverse, complete
lengthy contents from George Redington discussing tamarack and elm
timber, raft sales and pricing in the Quebec lumber market, some
wrinkling along filing folds, but a choice strike of the West
Williamsburg double-circle. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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40 cover   image1899 (July 29), Commercial Hotel, Guelph, striking illustrated
advertising cover, franked with 2c violet Numeral issue, tied by
neatly-struck Guelph c.d.s., to London, Ontario, with same-day
arrival backstamp, fresh and very fine. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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