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LotNo.

Symbol

CatNo.

Lot Description

421

Nova Scotia, 1857, 6d dark green. Large part o.g., four nice margins, rich color, fresh, for this Very Fine, an exceptional example of a rare stamp in choice condition.
Scott No. 5; $10,000. (Image1)

Scott $10,000

Selling for...$1,250.00
Will close during Public Auction

422

8TC

Nova Scotia, 1860-63, 1¢ Queen Victoria, trade sample proofs on bond. Five different colors, large margins, Very Fine. Unitrade No. 8TC vars. C$1,000 ($700).
Scott No. 8TC; Estimate $200 - 300. (Image1)

Est. $200-300
Selling for...$100.00
Will close during Public Auction

423

Nova Scotia, 1860-63, 1¢ vermilion, trial color plate proof on India on card overprinted "Specimen". Right sheet margin vertical block of 6 with American Bank Note Co. imprint, top four stamps overprinted "Specimen" type B, bottom pair type C; large margins except two upper left stamps barely shaving at left, generally F.-V.F. Catalog value includes 25% premium for two types of "Specimen" overprint. Unitrade No. 8Pii-iii C$420 ($290).
Scott No. 8P; Estimate $100 - 150. (Image1)

Est. $100-150
Selling for...$50.00
Will close during Public Auction

424

10P, 12P, 13P

Nova Scotia, 1860-63, 5¢, 10¢ & 12½¢ plate proofs in black on India, overprinted "Specimen" type B. A lovely set of blocks of 4, 10¢ & 12½¢ removed from card, Extremely Fine. Unitrade No. 10TC11, 12TCii, 13Pi C$920 as singles ($640).
Scott No. 10P, 12P, 13P; Estimate $200 - 300. (Image1)

Est. $200-300
Selling for...$100.00
Will close during Public Auction

425

11P

Nova Scotia, 1860-63, 8½¢ dark green, plate proof on India on card. Left sheet margin block of 8, Extremely Fine. Unitrade No. 11P1 C$600 as singles ($420).
Scott No. 11P; Estimate $150 - 200. (Image1)

Est. $150-200
Selling for...$80.00
Will close during Public Auction

426

11P

Nova Scotia, 1860-63, 8½¢ dark green, plate proof on India on card. Lower right corner sheet margin block of 12, right & bottom margins with American Bank Note Co. imprint, Very Fine and attractive. Unitrade No. 11Pi C$900 as singles ($630).
Scott No. 11P; Estimate $200 - 300. (Image1)

Est. $200-300
Selling for...$100.00
Will close during Public Auction

427

11P, 13P

Nova Scotia, 1860-63, 8½¢ green & 12½¢ black, plate proofs on India. A gorgeous pair of blocks of 10 removed from card, Extremely Fine. Unitrade No. 11Pi, 13P C$1,350 as singles ($940).
Scott No. 11P, 13P; Estimate $300 - 400. (Image1)

Est. $300-400
Selling for...$150.00
Will close during Public Auction

428

11TC

Nova Scotia, 1860-63, 8½¢ Queen Victoria, trade sample proofs on bond. 15 different colors, large margins, Very Fine. Unitrade No. 11TC vars. C$3,000 ($2,100).
Scott No. 11TC; Estimate $500 - 750. (Image1)

Est. $500-750
Selling for...$250.00
Will close during Public Auction

429

12P, 13P

Nova Scotia, 1860-63, 10¢ vermilion & 12½¢ black, plate proofs on India on card, overprinted "Specimen". Bottom sheet margin vertical blocks of 8 with American Bank Note Co. imprint; the top two stamps in each block with "Specimen" overprint type D, the next two type B, and the bottom four type C, a gorgeous set of these rare blocks, Extremely Fine and choice. Catalog value includes 100% premium for three types of "Specimen" overprint. Unitrade No. 12Pi-III, 13Pi-iii C$4,160 ($2,910).
Scott No. 12P, 13P; Estimate $500 - 750. (Image1)

Est. $500-750
Selling for...$250.00
Will close during Public Auction

430

12TC, 13TC vars.

Nova Scotia, 1860-63, 10¢ & 12½¢ Queen Victoria, Goodall trial color plate proof on India. Five 10¢ and two 12½¢ in seven different colors: black, brown, blue, green, scarlet, yellow, and orange, fresh and bright, clear to mostly large margins, four still on card, Very Fine. Unitrade No. 12TC vars.
Scott No. 12TC, 13TC vars.; Estimate $400 - 600. (Image1)

Est. $400-600
Selling for...$200.00
Will close during Public Auction

431

12TC

Nova Scotia, 1860-63, 10¢ vermilion. Overprint type B in gold, large margins, Very Fine. Rarely seen with gold Specimen overprint. Unitrade No. 12TCv C$400 ($280).
Scott No. 12TC; Estimate $150 - 200. (Image1)

Est. $150-200
Selling for...$80.00
Will close during Public Auction

432

13P1

Nova Scotia, 1860-63, 12½¢ black, die proof on India on card. 40x44 mm, fresh and clean, Very Fine and rare.
Scott No. 13P1; Estimate $300 - 400.

The website, bnaproofs.com, records only three of these proofs and prices them at C$2,000 (ca. 2015). (Image1)

Est. $300-400
Selling for...$150.00
Will close during Public Auction

433

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Prince Edward Island, 1861, 3d blue. Remarkably fresh and virtually perfectly centered, regummed, Extremely Fine. Unitrade C$2,000 for VF, no gum ($1,400).
Scott No. 2; $2,500 for o.g. (Image1)

Scott $2,500 for o.g.

Selling for...$130.00
Will close during Public Auction

Postal History & Essay

LotNo.

Symbol

CatNo.

Lot Description

434

Canada, (Klondike Gold Rush) In camp 5 miles from no where Feb. 19 1899. Dateline on lengthy four page letter from G. N. Burt, with interesting content regarding traveling and bring supplies from Vancouver over White Pass to Dawson City and back…You ask me to write you something of our trip to the Land of gold, and, the Midnight Sun. Well we left Northampton right side up with care. We stopped long enough to look the city over quite a bit at Montreal, also Toronto, Chicago, St. Paul, Shokian Falls and Seattle. There we took the steamer for Victoria and stayed there about a week. We then took the Steamer for Seaguay stopping 4 days at Vancover where the Captian of the ship was arrested for horse stealing. After that was settled we proceeded on our way, arriving at our destination in goods spirits. Seaguay we found to be a town of 3 or 4 thousand people, more or less. The streets were mud holes, and stumps sticking out of the mud everywhere. We stayed there 4 days and started for Lake Bennett with our supplys on mules. The first night out we stopped at White Pass Hotel at the Summit. This is where the Mounted Police were stationed. We paid 1.00 a piece for the privilage of sleeping on the ground and furnished our own blankets. The Hotel cosisted of one canvas tent. The next night we stayed at thefar famed Log Cabin. Here is where I made my first and last acquaintance with the Alaska Humming Bird, or in other words greybacks. The next night found us in camp on Lake Bennett. On the trail between Seaguay and Lake Bennett there were over 3000 dead horses left where they fell. You would be walking along and first you would know you would step into one up to your knee. We stayed in Bennett 6 weeks waiting for the ice to break up. Then off for Dawson. The senery along the Lakes and Rivers is beautifull. But you want to go down there for pleasure to apreciate it. We arrived at the Mouth of Stewart River all right. We had some close shaves on our way but nothing serious. We then started for Dawson 70 miles below. We stayed there a day or two and went back to Stewart River and went up that prospecting the creeks on our way. We went up about 200 miles and then came back of the reast of our supplys and then toiled back up the River again intending to winter up there. But we found there was nothing there for us so we went to Dawson again nothing there so we started down the River stopping at all the camps as we went. We kept on going untill we arrived at St. Michail where we took the Steamer and arrived in Vancover safe at last. We made the whole distance to St. Michael in a 20 faint. canoe.; with letter docketed from the Thurlow Post Office, Shoal Boy B. C., with 3¢ entire to Northampton, Mass. sent from Thurlow (faulty), F.-V.F.
Estimate; $200 - 300.

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Est. $200-300
Selling for...$210.00
Will close during Public Auction

435

Canada, (Klondike Gold Rush) Dawson City, Aug 18th 97. Dateline on lengthy twelve page letter from gold miner, Chas. A. Goodwin, to his sweetheart in Los Angeles, Cal., with interesting content regarding Dawson City, mining prospects, etc.…The Gold here floats like water among the people if you turn your hand over it would cost $1.50 do an errand across the street carry a trunk 2 Blocks would cost you $5.00. I am working in town at clothing and paper Hanging but the wall paper is poor and only a few rolls. will go to the mines as soon as it freezes up to work in the mines. I have an interest 1/8 in two mines joining No 5-6 El Dorado called Bench Claims. I had to pay $500.00 cash Bal on time of $500.00 being $1000.00 for 1/8 interest in two claims. They are 2 claims from Charlie Garn backstamp on the side hill, and he is good for a million so they say. They had worked out over $150,000 one hundred and fifty thousand dollars out of his mine where he stood. He has a partner and they had to give 50 Pr cent to have 2 man the work done by 3 men when he went out those men made $20,000 dollars a piece in about 2 months tho of course you cannot tell whether the ground where I am is as good but it is some good and perhaps will be enough to put us in good shape. when I got here all the had been prospected and claims located for miles around here. I also own No. 17 above Discovery on Bear Creek I have a man working there building a cabin. I bought it for $500.00 five hundred, and have to pay him $250.00 to stay on it for 6 weeks. Will have to get it layed over for a season or give half to have it worked but it has not been prospected and pay on or near it has not been located at the same time. We cannot tell it may be very rich, but sweet heart remember these things may not be worth but a trifle but the only thing is to get on the ground (floor as near as possible) it is the only way to make money here. There are men out prospecting all around here and if they strike any thing I still have my rights and can file on a claim. But Deane I do not want you to talk about our hopes as it may all be castles in the air….Tell the boys that I would like to see them come here as soon as possible bring as much good paper start in March buy 3 dogs at Seattle long haired dogs and get over the summit before the snow goes away as the hardest work a person can do is packing on your Back, it is simply dreadful, it is all most enough to kill oneself, and if they come any other time of th€ year, they will have to pack 16 miles and it will take one man about 20 days to pack 500 # 16 miles this being from Dyer to Lake Linderman. But it may be that the new trail will be better but don't come the new trail called the White Pass unless you find that all or most of the people are going this way. Don't take up with any one for sure until you get to the place where you build your Boat unless it is some one you start from home with…This is the greatest place for open gambling I have seen, some men lose $5,000.00 in one hour others make it in the same time but excuse me none of it for me., Very Fine.
Estimate; $300 - 400.

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Est. $300-400
Selling for...$150.00
Will close during Public Auction

436

Canada, (Klondike Gold Rush) Nov 11th 97 Dawson N.W.T. Dateline on letter written on a whiskey bottle wrapper, with interesting content regarding coming to & life in Dawson City and area…Perhaps you will excuse me writing on a whisky bottle wrapper when I say it is the best I could obtain in town. It is so long since I have written you I hardly know what to write. It took me 45 days to bring myself and outfit to this city- 35 days packing it on my back 28 miles over the Alyea Pass and 10 coming down rivers and lakes at from 4 to 10 miles an hour. Of the perils, hardships I had I will not burden the letter - suffice it to say I would not go through the same again for all the wealth on earth. I have been here now about three months and have not had a letter since my arrival although there are several papers in town dated as late as Sept. 7. Dawson City numbers about 8000 men and 150 women - there being about 5000 men in the mines within a radius of 30 miles. All the buildings are log cabins. We have a theatre, 60 saloons 3 churches 1 hospital. We are now having what the pioneers call warm weather 200 below which perhaps it is when one considers that for a month at a time it never crosses above 600 below. A young fellow Norman Abrams is my partner. We have a log cabin together and live on the daily routine of beans, bacon, flapjacks, no fresh meat, or meat,of any kind for over three months. We lived in a tent for a week while it was thirty below while up Bonanza but it was not pleasant. I have two claims now on Moose Hide, whether they are worth anything or not I don't know. I intend to come out next summer and you may see me next winter if things turn out favorably here. There is a shortage of grub and many will starve. All food, even horse meat, is from $1 to $3 a lb. candles $1.50 a piece beer 50¢ whiskey $1 and everything in proportion. It is a great place to gamble, every saloon has faro roulette, black jack, poker, craps, pools, stud, lotter, keynote and the miners gamble day & night no one thinks anything of winning or loosing $1000 dollars and I have seen one man pass $20,000 over the faro table without a twitch. Although in Canadian Territory, they are mostly Americans. The country is greatly overrated while there are a few mines that are almost pure gold there are thousands it would not pay to work. I can give you this pointer- don't believe a newspaper report- reporters here are all under pay- don't invest in any stock (for its intrinsic value) don't grub stake anybody. The Yukon is now blocked with walls of ice. If you have any friends who would think of leaving a position to come here, advise them not too, with the rush next summer the country will be spoilt. Two years up here will ruin most peoples health. There is a Canadian mail now.; with cover franked with 3¢ Jubilee smudge canceled and tied by ms "D.W.T., 12 11 97" postmark, transit backstamps including Dyea, Alaska, cover flaws, F.-V.F.
Estimate; $300 - 400.

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Est. $300-400
Selling for...$240.00
Will close during Public Auction

437

Canada, Bradbury Wilkinson 6d Engraved Plate Essay of a Viking's Head, in brown. On vertical wove paper, large margins, Very Fine, Minuse & Pratt E-Ca.
Estimate; $200 - 300. (Image1)

Est. $200-300
Selling for...$100.00
Will close during Public Auction

1851 Pence Issue on Laid Paper

LotNo.

Symbol

CatNo.

Lot Description

438

1P//8P

Canada, 1851-64 Pence Issues, 3d, 6d, 10d & ½d plate proofs overprinted "Specimen". India on card, horizontal pairs, four margins & fresh colors; 10p with a tiny chip in the India paper at upper left, otherwise Very Fine. Unitrade No. 1TC, 2TCix, 7Pi, 8Pi C$2,900 ($2,030).
Scott No. 1P//8P; Estimate $500 - 750.

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Est. $500-750
Selling for...$250.00
Will close during Public Auction

439

2 var.

Canada, 1851, Prince Albert, 6d gray, trial color plate proof on India paper, vertical "Specimen" overprint in orange. Block of 4 mounted on card, large even margins, vivid fresh color, an Extremely Fine gem. Unitrade No. 2TCv C$1,200 as singles ($840).
Scott No. 2 var.; Estimate $400 - 600. (Image1)

Est. $400-600
Selling for...$200.00
Will close during Public Auction

440

Canada, 1851, Prince Albert, 6d slate violet, on laid paper, imperforate. Light cancel, wide margins, rich deep color, Extremely Fine, a wonderful example of this difficult issue, with 2024 P.S.E. certificate Graded (XF 90).
Scott No. 2; $1,500. (Image1)

Scott $1,500

Selling for...$375.00
Will close during Public Auction

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