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Canada - Postal History Lots & Collections King Edward VII Era Groups
Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1025
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King Edward VII, 1900s/1910s, group of 65 covers and cards, including advertising covers, registered and Postage Due mail, and other material, with a good variety of postal markings and cancellations throughout, some cards toned but mostly fine or better. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 150
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1026
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Quebec Tercentenary, 1900s, group of 20 covers and cards, with single and multiple frankings including registered mail, mainly domestic but with one use to England and two to France, showing a useful variety of frankings and usages, a few faults but generally in good condition. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 150
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King George V Era Groups
Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1027
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King George V, Admirals, 1910s/1930s, group of 75 covers and cards, showing a variety of rates, frankings and commercial uses, including Postage Due items, advice-of-receipt cards, corner cards, advertising covers, multiple frankings and slogan cancellations, a useful group for collectors of the Admiral issue and Canadian postal history, mostly fine or better. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 200
Opening C$ 80.00
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1028
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Cat No: Collection
King George V, Admirals, 1913/1934, coil cover selection of 19 with singles and strips, including a paquebot on the Duchess of Bedford, seapost on the Hiye Maru, illustrated advertising, registered mail and a cover with start and end strips, the group including three fronts, fine or better overall. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 100
Opening C$ 30.00
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1029
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King George V Postal History, 1920s/1930s, group of 58 covers and cards, comprising advertising covers, registered and Postage Due mail, acknowledgement-of-receipt cards, a mailbag tag, a cover bearing two United States Officially Sealed labels and other material, with a good variety of postal markings and cancellations throughout, mostly fine or better. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 150
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1030
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King George VI Postal History, 1930s/1940s, group of more than 100 covers and cards, comprising a diverse range of advertising covers, registered and Airmail uses, censored covers, Postage Due mail, First Day Covers, Royal Train covers and other material, with a good variety of postal markings and cancellations throughout and considerable scope for the King George VI collector, mostly fine or better. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 300
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Large Queen Groups
Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1010
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Cat No: Collection
Large Queens, 1868/1869, group of eight 3c covers, selection including one struck with two-ring “6” numeral cancellation, a full-back W. & R. Brodie advertising cover with “cards of the principal business houses of Quebec” on reverse (toned), another with partial four-ring “20” numeral cancellation of Melbourne, together with examples from Goderich, Newport, Nova Scotia, Moncton and Bathurst; mixed condition with faults in places, including the odd cover with a portion torn away, inspect. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 120
Opening C$ 60.00
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1011
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Large Queens, 1868/1873, group of eight 6c-rate covers, comprising four 6c single-frankings to the United States, including one struck with an attractive Toronto fancy cancellation and another, a front only, postmarked Westport, Brier Island, Nova Scotia; one 6c single-franking to Bristol via Liverpool; one cover front from St. John to Scotland franked with a strip of three 2c Large Queens and endorsed “via Portland”; and one cover from St. John to Missouri bearing two 2c singles; mixed condition with faults in places including toning, staining and small tears, two items being fronts only, but an uncommon group. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 300
Opening C$ 150.00
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1012
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Large Queens, 1868/1897, group of ten coverswith ½c to 15c frankings, comprising 1868 12½c single-franking transatlantic cover front from Halifax to Scotland; 1868 3c pair on cover from St. John to Hopewell; 1868 1c single-franking drop rate cover sent within London; 1871 2c single-franking on Statistical Returns folded letter from Papineauville to Quebec, the adhesive apparently lifted and incorrectly replaced; 6c single-franking mourning cover to Massachusetts; 6c single-franking cover to Annapolis; 6c single-franking cover from Kentville to Halifax; 2c single-franking from Yarmouth paying the elusive local rate (faulty); 15c single-franking on parcel piece to the Beauce; and 1897 cover from Sydney to Prince Edward Island bearing ½c Large Queen in combination with ½c and 2c Small Queens and 5c Registered Letter Stamp; mixed condition as expected, with some creasing, staining and other faults, but mostly fine, inspect. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 300
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1013
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Cat No: 22/23
Large Queens, 1869, group of six 1c printed matter and circular-rate frankings, comprising a circular from Montreal to Windsor, Nova Scotia, with two-ring “1” cancellation (stained); circular to Miramichi with two-ring “7”, with a second two-ring "7" on circular; front sent locally within London with two-ring “6”; 1c single-franking cover from Aylmer, addressed locally and endorsed “Try Bayham”; and 1c Large Queen affixed to the Ninth Annual Report of the Freehold Permanent Building & Savings Society of Toronto (1 June 1868); some faults, but mostly fine, a useful group of 1c printed matter and circular-rate usages. (Unitrade 22/23) (Image1)
Estimate C$ 200
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1014
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Large Queens, 1869/1871, group of five 3c domestic-rate covers including mixed Large and Small Queen frankings, comprising 2c and 1c Large Queens on cover from Windsor, Nova Scotia, to West River John (stained); 2c and 1c Large Queens on Manganese Mining Co. cover from Digby to Brier Island; 1c and 2c Large Queens on cover to Amherst (toned); 1870 2c Large Queen and 1c Small Queen mixed franking from Pugwash to Arichat; and 1871 2c Large Queen and 1c Small Queen mixed franking from Halifax to Pictou; mixed condition with some toning and creasing in places, but including several uncommon mixed Large and Small Queen frankings, inspect. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 250
Opening C$ 120.00
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Later Queen Victoria Groups
Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1023
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Maple Leaf Issue Postal History, collection of 30 items, including advertising covers for jewellers, manufacturers and other businesses, an attractive 8c Maple Leaf single franking, an unused J.C. Wilson “Rule Britannia” patriotic card, registered uses, flag cancellations and squared circles, together with approximately ten 1c Maple Leafs on Moncton drop letters and numerous other town cancellations, some small faults but mostly fine to very fine. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 150
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1024
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Numeral Issue Postal History, 1898/1903, group of 50 covers and cards, including private postcards, uprated postal stationery, registered letters, advertising covers and other uses, noting town cancellations from Head of St. Peter’s Bay, P.E.I., Metaghan, N.S., and Oak Bay, N.B., together with several squared-circle cancellations, mostly fine or better. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 300
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Postal History - Accumulations
Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1099
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1870s/1980s, eclectic cover and stationery accumulation of approximately 500 in a carton, including approximately 300 first day covers, mostly small size 1930s/1970s with many different cachets such as Kingswood, Cole, Caneco, JCR and Artmaster, plus 59 Colorano and 14 uncacheted 1932/1942; 70 event covers from various stamp shows, philatelic societies and municipal and provincial exhibitions; approximately 50 used postal stationery items 1870s/1970s including envelopes, post cards, wrappers and a few Newfoundland; also four books, Robson Lowe's Encyclopaedia of British Empire Postage Stamps, Day and Smythies' Canadian Fancy Cancellations of the 19th Century, Howes' Canadian Postage Stamps and Stationery and Campbell's Canada Post Offices 1755-1895, an eclectic mix worth the enjoyment of sorting. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 100
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1100
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Cat No: Collection
1890s/1980s, retired dealer stock of postal history, hundreds of covers and cards in a medium carton, including commercial mail, perfins and precancels, advertising, corner cards, postage due and a few first day covers; also a small box labelled "Elgin and Norfolk" with letters, receipts, deeds, leases and more, a sorter's dream and ideal for the online or club reseller, a representative selection pictured online, fine or better overall. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 200
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1101
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1890s/1990s, accumulation of more than 550, mostly from the 1950s onward, including many early first flights and other Airmail, advertising and show covers, along with some squared-circle cancellations and colourful material throughout, some roughly opened but generally sound, online photographs showing a representative selection, overall fine or better. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 100
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1102
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1900s/1990s, wide-ranging group of 290 covers and cards, extending from early postcards, many showing Postage Due uses, to later commercial covers, with advertising covers, registered and Airmail uses, Québec Hold Mail letters and forms, and other material, particularly notable for the many Alberta and Québec cancellations and the broad variety of postal markings throughout, approximately half dating from the Queen Elizabeth II period and offering considerable scope for further study, mostly fine or better. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 250
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1103
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Cat No: Collection
1907/mid-20th century, several thousand covers in a carton, offered as received, with highly variable condition, including numerous commercial corner-card covers, R.P.O.s, Second World War material and more, inspection likely to be rewarded, online photographs showing a representative selection, inspect. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 300
Opening C$ 150.00
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Postal History - by Subject or Region
Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1032
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Cat No: Collection
Airmail, 1928/1935, collection of over fifty early airmail and first-flight covers, almost all franked with 5c Allegory Air Post (Sc. C1), the vast majority being first flights, with very little apparent duplication, chiefly 1928/1930 usages and many struck with attractive handstamped flight cachets, a few pilot or postmaster signed, noting an interesting 1930 double-rate airmail cover from Calgary to Denmark; extensively written up, with some small faults, but an attractive holding, mostly very fine. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 120
Opening C$ 70.00
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1033
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Cat No: Collection
British Columbia Postal History, 1900s/1990s, group of 180 covers and cards, ranging mainly from early postcards to later commercial mail and including Postage Due uses on postcards and covers, Official mail and other material, with a good variety of town cancellations and postal markings including a selection of slogan cancellations, mostly fine or better. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 150
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1034
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British Columbia Postmarks, 1902/1960s, group of 80 covers and postal stationery items, including examples from smaller towns and villages such as Milner, Ymir and Clearwater Station, mostly split-ring postmarks, suitable for the show or online dealer, approximately 15 percent photographed online, overall fine or better. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 100
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1035
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C.O.D. Mail, 1911/2001 “C.O.D. in Canada” five-frame postal history exhibit, illustrating and describing the range of forms, envelopes and labels used for this important service, which supported the expansion of businesses throughout the country, mounted with write-ups in two binders and including additional auxiliary-marking, rate and route interest, with services represented including Canadian Pacific Express, Northern Express, Canadian National Express and others, stamp usages ranging from the early Admiral period through the 1960s Karsh issues, followed by meters and labels, ready for updating and continuation, ex Earle Covert, all fine or better. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 300
Opening C$ 150.00
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1036
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Cat No: Collection
Certified & Insured Mail, 1973/2001 collection of Canada Post Certified Mail and Insured Parcel material, comprising hundreds of labels, flimsies and envelopes, all with duplication, together with numerous postal history items showing proper use and a printed copy of reference material formerly published in the Webb catalogue and now available through the British North America Philatelic Society website, the contents having informed these resources and been assembled toward an exhibit or book, ready for further development into an exhibit or published article, photographs showing a representative selection, all fine or better, ex Earle Covert. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 100
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1037
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COVID-19, 2020/2022 “Canadian Mail, the Post Office and COVID-19,” exhibit by Earle Covert, documenting pandemic-related disruptions to the Canadian mail system, with emphasis on postal stationery including Personalized Mail indicia, #writeherewritenow postal cards in both official languages, post office lobby posters and other ephemera, together with complete and exploded examples of the Thank You package given to each Canada Post employee as the postal system fully reopened, acknowledging their efforts during the challenges of the pandemic, mounted on 49 sheet-protected 11 × 17-inch pages and ready for continuation and expansion, all very fine. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 250
Opening C$ 100.00
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1038
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Damaged, Delayed, & Disrupted Mail, 1930s/2000s, “Not All Mail Gets Through Uneventfully” exhibit, including items salvaged from air, land and maritime wrecks, found or received damaged through mechanical handling, cancelling machinery and other postal processes, and repaired using labels, tape, ambulance covers and Dead Letter Office envelopes, with further sections devoted to addressing problems and auxiliary markings such as incorrect postal codes, “Not Called For,” “Moved,” “Not in Directory,” magazine returns and temporary or permanent changes of address, almost entirely Canadian but with some incoming international mail affected by strikes, embargoes, suspended services and other disruptions, the exhibit housed in 40 four-page-wide sheet protectors and accompanied by two thick binders and cover albums containing substantial additional material for expansion, suitable for continuation or as a dealer’s inventory with considerable retail potential, photographs showing only a small portion of this remarkable assembly, ex Earle Covert. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 300
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1039
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: Collection
Eaton’s Private-Order Postcards, 1895/1969, collection of more than 50 cards, ranging from the Queen Victoria Ornaments issue through the Centennial-era precancelled postal stationery cards, together with regular stationery cards bearing T. Eaton Company handstamps, including numerous colourful designs illustrated in the Webb catalogue, mostly advertising forthcoming Wish Book catalogues but also acknowledging inquiries and providing delivery notifications, accompanied by approximately 25 covers franked with definitive and commemorative stamps through the 1960s, likely used for account payments and some supplied by Eaton’s as preprinted stationery, photographs showing a representative selection, overall fine to very fine, ex Earle Covert. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 100
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1040
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Express Mail, 1993/2010s collection of Canada Post Expresspost material, comprising hundreds of labels, preprinted paper and cardboard envelopes for Canadian, United States and international services, self-adhesive labels, post office promotional signs and instructions, and numerous postal history items showing proper use, together with a printed copy of reference material formerly published in the Webb catalogue and now available through the British North America Philatelic Society website, the contents having informed these resources and likely representing the most complete chronicle of this Canada Post service, exceptionally difficult to replicate, photographs showing a representative selection, all fine or better, ex Earle Covert. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 200
Opening C$ 80.00
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1041
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Manitoba Postal History, 1900s/1990s, group of 77 covers and cards, mostly comprising early postcards and later commercial covers, with Postage Due and Airmail uses, commercial mail, an Airmail bag tag and other material, noting town cancellations from Asessippi, Stonewall, Grand Beach, Gilbert Plains, Cardale, Two Creeks and Elkhorn, among others, mostly fine or better. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 150
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Lot No: 1042
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Newfoundland, 1887/1947, group of 27 covers ranging from the 5c blue Seal to the 5c Matthew issues, showing a useful assortment of domestic and international rates and destinations including Turkey, the United States, England and Canada, franked with stamps from the Cabot, Royal Family, Trail of the Caribou and later issues, many with clear dated postmarks, all individually sleeved and photographed online, overall fine or better. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 150
Opening C$ 60.00
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1043
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: Collection
Newfoundland, Pictorial Issue Postal History and Source Photographs, 1923/1940s, specialised collection of more than 140 covers and postcards, beginning with a group of photographs by Robert Edwards Holloway (1850–1904), whose images were used in designing most stamps of the popular 1924 Pictorial issue, the postal history ranging from single frankings to multiples paying registered, double- and triple-weight rates and other fees, with domestic uses (16, including three registered), Canada (30, including seven registered), United States (66, including 26 registered) and foreign destinations (23, including 13 registered), the latter including the United Kingdom, India, Belgium, Italy, Australia and Mexico, with two to Mexico including one short-paid, approximately half the collection illustrated online, an unusual opportunity for the exhibitor or advanced collector, overall fine or better. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 1,500
Opening C$ 1,000.00
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1044
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Newfoundland, First Flights, 1929/1947, group of 36 covers, mostly franked with Newfoundland stamps ranging from the Pictorial issue through the Airmail issues, with a few bearing mixed Newfoundland and Canadian frankings, showing useful cancellations and auxiliary markings and many with transit and receiving postmarks, including a Newfoundland Department of Militia O.H.M.S. cover with typewritten “In Haste” notation, with flights to Canada, the United States, England and Czechoslovakia, all individually sleeved and approximately one-third photographed online, overall fine or better. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 150
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Lot No: 1045
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Cat No: Collection
Niagara Falls Views, 1893/1898, collection of 31 Victorian postal stationery cards, featuring most views listed in Webb, with varieties including a cracked plate and most catalogued at $75 or more, beginning with the rare upright View 1 bearing “Queens Park Bazaar, / Zyback & Co., Props.” at top (Webb c.v. $300) and including the scarce View 17 with “Souvenir” below the image (c.v. $125), represented on issues from the Pointed Ornaments through the Maple Leaf, mostly addressed to Germany and some uprated with Small Queen and other frankings, a remarkable assembly for the specialist or exhibitor, all contents photographed, overall fine to very fine, ex Earle Covert. (Webb NF4-1/NF17-3) (Image1)
Estimate C$ 500
Opening C$ 200.00
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1046
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Nova Scotia Postal History, 1900s/1990s, group of 110 covers and cards, ranging from early postcards to later commercial mail and including Postage Due and Small Queen covers, registered mail, advertising covers, postal stationery and other material, with a good variety of town cancellations and postal markings throughout, mostly fine or better. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 150
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1047
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Nova Scotia, 1820s/1850s, exceptional collection of forty stampless covers, neatly written up and annotated on album pages, many with detailed summaries of contents and identification of correspondents, illustrating a wide range of origin markings, postal rates and destinations, including several cross-border and transatlantic usages; highlights include an 1821 folded letter from Halifax to Philadelphia, privately carried by ship to New York and forwarded through the mails to Philadelphia; 1824 folded letter from Bath to Halifax with straight-line TOO LATE handstamp on reverse; 1826 folded letter from London to the Pelican Life Insurance Company at Halifax paying the scarce 6s6d triple rate; 1828 folded letter from Glasgow to Halifax via Falmouth packet, prepaid 2s5d and struck with the additional ½d Scottish wheel tax; 1831 Thomas Coutts & Co. transatlantic letter from London to Halifax; 1833 transatlantic folded letter from London to Halifax, carried by the Rinaldo and redirected onward to LaHave; 1835 stampless transatlantic letter from Halifax to London via Falmouth, struck with the uncommon HALIFAX N.S. c.d.s., noted by MacDonald as scarce; and 1836 transatlantic letter from Durham to Halifax and onward to Saint John, New Brunswick, also bearing the scarce single-circle HALIFAX c.d.s.; many further interesting items throughout, condition naturally varied with some small faults, but much fine or better, an exceptional holding that would require considerable time to duplicate, detailed examination of our comprehensive online photos strongly encouraged; a superb nucleus for expansion into a comprehensive collection of early Nova Scotia postal history (Image1)
Estimate C$ 1,500
Opening C$ 800.00
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Lot No: 1048
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Nova Scotia, 1851/1868, group of twelve covers franked with Nova Scotia issues, comprising two 3d blue imperforate Heraldic covers to Truro (faults); 1864 ½c Victoria pair paying the special 2c county rate on cover from Canning to Weston via Kentville (stained); five 2c lilac Victoria single-franking covers, including examples to Bridgetown, Annapolis, Windsor, Digby and Kentville; three 5c blue Victoria covers, including one with a vertical pair on cross-border mail from Truro to New York; and one 10c vermilion single-franking cover to Maine; small faults throughout including edge wear, small tears and light creasing, but a difficult group to assemble with several fine covers. (Unitrade c.v. $2,000+) (Image1)
Estimate C$ 400
Opening C$ 200.00
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1049
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Nova Scotia, post-Confederation postal history collection, Victorian through Queen Elizabeth II, over sixty-five items, the majority Victorian and including nearly twenty Small Queen covers, written-up on pages, highlights include 1879 1c postal stationery card with blue River John postmark to Black Brothers & Co., the firm of William Anderson Black; 1895 3c Small Queen TOO LATE cover from Yarmouth; 1895 ½c Small Queen strip of six on an attractive cover from Upper Stewiacke to Colchester County; block of eight 1c Diamond Jubilees on cover from Ingomar to Massachusetts (some oxidation); 1900 2c and 5c Numeral mixed franking on registered cover from Weymouth to Halifax; 1903 registered Numeral and Edward VII mixed-franking cover from Shelburne to Bonavista, Newfoundland; 1918 2c Admiral and 3c Confederation mixed-franking registered cover from Seal Island; 1934 International Apple Blossom Festival illustrated advertising cover from Kentville; 1942 illustrated hotel advertising cover; several 1930s Canadian Airways pilot-signed flight covers; and a range of split-ring, squared circle, and other cancellations together with approximately ten picture postcards including a few real photo cards of Wolfville; condition somewhat mixed in places, but much fine or better, a broad and appealing holding, and an excellent nucleus for further expansion. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 500
Opening C$ 300.00
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Lot No: 1050
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Cat No: Collection
Nova Scotia,1890/1950s, extensive collection of approximately 750 covers and cards, comprising a wide range of usages and postal markings with numerous smaller and less frequently encountered communities represented, noting cancellations from Albro Lake, Barrington Passage, Canso, Economy, Enfield, Granville Ferry, Merigomish and Merigomishe, Bear River West Side and Tatamagouche, among many others, offering considerable scope for specialised research into individual hammers, dates and varieties, alphabetically arranged by the collector with little duplication except where towns are represented by different hammers, some faulty covers but mostly fine. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 500
Opening C$ 300.00
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Lot No: 1051
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Official and Free Mail covers, 1890s/1960s, group of approximately 700 Canadian and British Commonwealth examples, mostly from the 1940s to 1960s, with a good selection of military and R.C.M.P. mail, approximately 10% being British Commonwealth, including Barbados, Bermuda, Cook Islands and Fiji, housed loose and in a binder, accompanied by approximately two dozen 102 cards of singles, at least half the envelopes roughly opened, but an interesting range, our online photographs showing a representative selection, overall fine or better. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 200
Opening C$ 100.00
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Lot No: 1052
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Official covers, 1908/1990s, group of approximately 150, from Federal government departments, the Post Office Department or Canada Post, offices of Members of Parliament and the Secretary to the Governor General, all showing some form of free franking or O.H.M.S. designation, often with the names of MPs or authorised officials handwritten, handstamped or incorporated into meter cancellations, approximately 20% franked with perforated O.H.M.S. or G-overprinted stamps, with departments represented including the Experimental Farm, Health and Welfare, Treasury, House of Commons and Senate, National Defence and the R.C.A.F., photographs showing only a representative overview, ex Earle Covert, overall fine or better. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 200
Opening C$ 90.00
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Lot No: 1053
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Ontario Postal History, 1900s/1990s, group of 100 covers and cards, mostly comprising early postcards and later commercial covers, with Postage Due and Airmail uses, commercial mail and other material, noting better town cancellations from Cherrywood, Minett, Ruthven, Petherton, Keene, Yeovil, Providence Bay, Dawn Valley and Grey, among others, mostly fine or better. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 300
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Lot No: 1054
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Ontario, 1890s/2000s, retired dealer stock, a couple of thousand covers and cards in a large box, including commercial mail, warranty cards with definitive and commemorative usages, advertising, registered and special delivery, perfins and precancels, corner cards, postage due, special event covers and much more, a sorter's dream and ideal for the online or club reseller, a small number of other provinces noted, a representative selection pictured online, fine or better overall. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 300
Opening C$ 100.00
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Lot No: 1055
Symbol: Cvr
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Parcel Labels, Container Tags, Etiquettes, & Related, 1970s/2000s, extensive collection filling a medium-sized box,comprising used and unused examples of this under-appreciated material, integral to the efficient movement of mail and parcels, an exhibit in the making whose breadth and depth would be difficult to replicate, photographs showing a representative selection and overview, all fine or better, ex Earle Covert. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 100
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Lot No: 1056
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Parcel Mail, 1980s/2000s exhibit and extensive supporting collection of Modern Canadian Parcel Mail, illustrating the many payment methods and tracking systems employed by Canada Post during the period, with services including Fourth Class, Package Mail, ISS/SEI, Commercial Expedited, Signature Series, Skypak and others, accompanied by numerous additional examples gathered both during and after preparation of the exhibit for possible future expansion, comprising hundreds of labels and forms, promotional and marketing material, and postal history items showing proper use, together with a printed copy of reference material formerly published in the Webb catalogue and now available through the British North America Philatelic Society website, the largest and most thoroughly organised assembly of this material we have encountered and exceptionally difficult to replicate, photographs showing a representative selection, all fine or better, ex Earle Covert. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 200
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1057
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Permit Mail, 1903/2010s, extensive exhibit and collection from King Edward VII to Queen Elizabeth II, the largest assembly of such material we have handled or encountered in one place, housed in six thick binders with material in sheet protectors and two full stockbooks, well written up throughout and comprising cut squares and complete covers illustrating the many types and styles of permits granted to private companies during the period, particularly rich in advertising covers, corner cards and attractively designed Business Reply Mail, with concise explanations tracing their evolution and considerable interest across numerous philatelic fields, photographs concentrating on the earliest material and showing only a small portion of the collection, overall fine or better, ex Earle Covert. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 600
Opening C$ 250.00
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Lot No: 1058
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Politics, 1935/1995 collection of Canadian political philately, including more than 130 free-franked items from a “who’s who” of mostly 1970s and 1980s Members of Parliament and Senators, among them former Prime Ministers Joe Clark and Jean Chrétien, as well as Michael Wilson, Ed Broadbent, Flora MacDonald, Lincoln Alexander and many others, with several challenging Postal Stationery Form 95 covers used for the post-election return of polling-station results to candidates, together with approximately 75 items related to former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and the 1980 17c memorial stamp, including 25 Form 95 covers from his various elections, first day covers, one signed by stamp designer Bernie Reilander, singles and plate blocks, with two stamps showing the one-bar tagging variety, one at left and one at right, an unusual group from a seldom-offered collecting area, overall very fine. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 250
Opening C$ 120.00
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1059
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Post Office Money Order, Postal Note and Postal Scrip exhibit, 1880s/1990s, written up on more than 70 pages with extensive notes and references appended, showing examples of most forms, receipts and remittance vouchers used during the period, together with marketing and informational material prepared for postal clerks and the general public, also including two sets of Postal Scrip, Second and Third series, and examples of their use on documents, assembled over several decades and the most comprehensive collection of this material we have encountered in one place, photographs showing only a representative overview, ex Earle Covert, overall fine or better. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 300
Opening C$ 150.00
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Lot No: 1060
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Postage Due and Dead Letter Office Mail, 1894/1990s, extensive collection filling three thick binders with additional loose material, comprising numerous Postage Due and Dead Letter Office envelopes illustrating the different types and rates employed throughout the period, whether printed or handstamped, including many examples illustrated in the Postage Due Envelopes, Wrappers and Labels section of the Webb catalogue, particularly strong from 1940 onwards with the first four Postage Due stamp issues and the red Centennial issue, later examples using Postage Due cards, some stapled to the original mail piece and often bearing definitive or commemorative stamps paying the fees, with auxiliary markings throughout, photographs showing a representative selection from this substantial collection ready for development into an exhibit, overall fine or better, ex Gutzman and Earle Covert. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 250
Opening C$ 120.00
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Lot No: 1061
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Postage Payment, 1980s/1990s “Methods of Indicating Payment of Modern Canadian Postal Services” seven-frame postal history exhibit, illustrating and describing the range of payment methods used for postal services, including various Canada Post stamp and payment types such as water-activated, self-adhesive, port payé, Expresspost and Priority Courier, together with the associated envelopes and labels, fully mounted with write-ups in one thick binder, an engaging exhibit ready for continuation and expansion, ex Earle Covert, all fine or better. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 150
Opening C$ 70.00
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Lot No: 1062
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Postal Codes and Early Sortation Systems, 1950s/1980s, extensive collection and research archive, comprising a substantial assembly of reference material, including correspondence with Post Office personnel, early, post-Transorma Postal Zone experiments and the introduction of the Postal Code in the mid-1970s, with early public-marketing material and information distributed to householders before and during its initial implementation, particularly strong in postal history illustrating the numerous markings used during the early development of automated mail sorting, including unobtrusive ink-jet markings on everyday reply mail and commercial payment envelopes, offering excellent scope for development into an exhibit, photographs showing a representative selection, all fine or better, ex Earle Covert. (Image1)
Estimate C$ 200
Opening C$ 60.00
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 1063
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Postcards, 1900/1950s, group of approximately 200, about 75 percent comprising pre-1940 real-photo, colourised or sepia examples, depicting historical landmarks, major CPR and CNR hotels, street scenes, people and contemporary modes of transportation, including an attractive maximum card of Quebec’s Château Frontenac with a 5c Tercentenary stamp tied on front, photographs showing a representative selection, overall fine or better. (Image1)
