1846 (20 July) Folded entire to New York, bearing two clear strikes of the PAID AT QUEBEC crowned circle in red, with Quebec cds alongside, fine.
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1851 6d slate-violet, on laid paper, used with crisp clear central target cancel, showing good to large margins, very fine and scarce; cert. Brandon (2016) (S.G. £1'300).
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1858-59 3d red, on machine-made paper, perforated 11 3/4, used with part target cancel, showing good centring, excellent colour, very fine (S.G. £375).
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1859 Jacques Cartier 17c Sperati forgeries, group of eight glass clichés, most with reversed image, in a splendid range of colours, such as black, vermilion, grey, and a radiant light blue, also one attractive negative cliché, some with Sperati’s typical manufacture notations, also one negative on g
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1897 Jubilee $1 lake, used with Montreal cds, showing good colour and perforation, fine (S.G. £550).
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1903 KEVII 1c-50c complete mint set, very fine with fresh colour, the 50c is superb; cert. Behr (2016) (S.G. £1'100).
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1911 Admiral issue, Eckerlin plate "essay" in 3 complete sheets in red, blue and green, very rare as such and missing even from the Brigham collection as nearly all have been cut into smaller multiples.
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1914, Wreckage of SS Empress of Ireland, ambulance wreck cover OHMS from Ottawa to Grimsby bearing at front 'Recovered by divers from wreck of S.S. Empress of Ireland', accompanied by a 1907 travelled ppc showing the ship under full steam.
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1945, SS SCYTHIA, wreck covers (2) from Canada to Great Britain, legal size cover from Montreal to Newcastle bearing straightline 'DAMAGED BY FIRE&WATER' and manuscript marking 'Delivered at Newcastle 20th June 1945' + another cover from Langley Prar. to Scotland bearing 2-line 'damaged by immersion
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1865 5c Sperati forgery glass support cliché in light carmine, prepared for producing the imperforate stamp, one of a dozen recorded.
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1865 5c Sperati forgery glass support cliché in negative with black surround, with some production numberings at top and base; extremely rare in negative.
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1865 5c, cliché in black on grey celluloid film; extremely rare with only a very few examples in the B.P.A. and the “Ultimate” collection.
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1851, 3d dark bright red on bluish paper, horizontal pair, large margins to very slightly touched at lower right, file crease affecting right stamp otherwise very fine, tied by mute grill cancels on folded cover (Asa Coy Sept 24 1851) with matching "FREDERICTON SEP 24 1851" cds on reverse, send to H
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THE ONLY KNOWN NEW BRUNSWICK COVER USED AT NEW YORK
1856 Envelope franked New Brunswick 3d pair dull red (folded between) posted at N.Y. bearing 'NEW-YORK / SEP /4' cds and oval UNITED STATES exchange handstamp addressed to Sussex, N.B., alongside with struck through straightline 'Held For Postage
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1859 Envelope to England with 1851-60 3s dull red bisect and 6d olive-yellow (both good even margins), tied by oval grill cancels, with Liverpool arrival cds adjacent, cover tear repairs and backflap with portion added, attractive; cert. Eichele (2002) (SG £3'000).
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1851 Royal Crown and Flowers 6d yellow on blued paper with fine to large, used with bold "23" in oval grid, a fine and fresh example; cert. Peter Holcombe (1993) (S.G. £900).
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1857 2d, 6 1/2d, 8d and 1s, eighteen items, comprising for the 1/2d value, one cliché on celluloid in light brown with production notes and date of Dec 1929, for the 2d one cliché in light vermilion and with reversed image and one cliché on glass with a part imprint of a stamp from Mexico, for the 8
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1857-64 Perkins Bacon 3d yellowish green, on machine-made paper, used, showing three good to large margins, very fine and scarce; cert. Brandon (2012) (S.G. £425).
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1857 4d, 8d, 1s sixteen items, comprising for the 4d value, two glass support clichés, one with reversed image and one with integrated postmark in a striking red-brown shade, for the 8d value four glass support clichés, with two in negative and painted black around design, also three trial impressio
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1857 8d Sperati forgery, glass support cliché in black and with reverse image.
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1857 8d, cliché on celluloid film in black with design reversed, marked “EN” at bottom.
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1857 8d Sperati forgery glass support cliché in vermilion, with reversed image, marked “148” at base; the vermilion shade that Sperati so often used for his proofs was a good match for the scarlet-vermilion of the original stamp.
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1860 medium, hand-made paper 1s green in mint block of four in a triangular shape, good margins all round, a superb and scarce multiple; ex John Chaplin.
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1896 1/2c orange-vermilion imperforate with original gum, very fine, uncatalogued and rare as such, described as a remainder by the cert. Brandon (1998).
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1896 1c green imperforate, cancelled by black barred circle, uncatalogued and rare as such, described as a remainder by the cert. Brandon (1998).
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1930 50c on 36c sage-green with "Columbia" surcharge, mint n.h., pos.4 of the setting, superb and rare with only 300 printed (of which 100 were used); signed Sanabria, cert. Scheller (2008) (S.G. £6'000).
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World Class Airmail Rarity
1932 (May 19) $1.50 on $1 deep blue "Dornier DO-X" with surcharge inverted in mint n.h. block of four showing the complete setting, a wonderful multiple with superb centring and freshness, one stamp with small natural gum skip at top, thought to be one of only three or fo
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1932-38 Pictorial 2c green, mint n.h. imperforate between horizontal pair, fresh, very fine, and a scarce variety (S.G. £275).
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1857 3d blue unused, fine to good margins all around, fresh colour, faint horizontal crease at top, a scarce and attractive unused example (S.G. £1'300).
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1858 (April 15) entire sent registered to Halifax bearing two examples of 6d yellow-green, each with four margins and tied neat mute barred oval cancels, m/s ’'Regd'' at upper left, with ''Kentville N.S. / AP 15 1858'' dispatch and ''H / AP 16 1858'' arrival backstamps. Excellent condition and a ver
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1870 4d black, marginal block of four from the lower right of the sheet on coarse bluish white wove paper, variety imperforate between, mint large part o.g., trace of tone spot, though still of very fresh appearance, a very scarce block.
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1857-1930, mint and used collection of Newfoundland with SG n° 11, 13, 28, 29 mint, as well as 17 mint stamps of Prince Edward, fine.
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1860-1905, Assembly of over 60 postal stationery envelopes, letter cards, cards & wrappers of Canada & Newfoundland, all (except 4 used) unused, practically all different, noted Canada envelopes first issue 5c & 10c, fine to mostly very fine group.
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