Sparks Auctions Sale

To see new sales and other StampAuctionNetwork news in your Facebook newsfeed then Like us on Facebook!

Postal History, Canada continued...

Canada Postal Stationery continued...

LotNo.

Symbol

Cat No.

Lot Description

1181

P22

1900 2c U.P.U. Post Card Mailed to French Indo China, P22 2c blue Leaf card mailed from Toronto on MAR.20.1900 (flag cancel) to Hanoi, Tonkin, China, with APR.25 receiver, through Vancouver (MAR.25 transit) and Hong Kong (Apr.17 transit). Very fine, and a rare destination. (Scan 1) (Scan 2) (All Scans)

Get Market Data for [Canada P22] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census

Estimate $ 500

SOLD for C$130.00
Will close during Public Auction

1182

CPR2

1900 C.P.R. Post Card Mailed to Serbia, a 1c carmine Leaf card, uprated with a 1c Numeral, mailed from Banff, Alberta on SEP.8.1900 to Belgrade, Serbia (Austro-Hungarian Empire) with OCT.14 receiver on front. Very fine, and a great combination of illustrated stationery card and rare destination.

Get Market Data for [Canada CPR2] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census

Estimate $ 350

SOLD for C$100.00
Will close during Public Auction

1183

CPR5a

1901 C.P.R. Post Card Mailed to Gibraltar, a 1c carmine Leaf Fraser Canon House pictorial card mailed from Montréal on AUG.3.1901 to Gibraltar, back has a printed CPR statement of earnings and expenses. Small corner fault, still very fine overall.

Get Market Data for [Canada CPR5a] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census

Estimate $ 200

SOLD for C$120.00
Will close during Public Auction

1184

CPR5a

1901 C.P.R. Post Card Mailed Short Paid to Macao, China, a 1c carmine Leaf Fraser Canon House pictorial card mailed from Toronto on DEC.24.1900 (two flag cancels, first one missed stamp) to Macau, China through Vancouver (DEC.29 duplex transit on back) and Hong Kong, (JAN.22.1901 TOO LATE datestamp on front) and arrived Macau on JAN.22 (looks like it wasn't too late after all). The card has a "T" in circle and a "5" handstamp, as the rate should have been 2c (hand written message on back). Negligible light creasing at left, still very fine, attractive and rare. (Scan 1) (Scan 2) (All Scans)

Get Market Data for [Canada CPR5a] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census

Estimate $ 500

SOLD for C$200.00
Will close during Public Auction

1185

CPR9

1902 C.P.R. Post Card Mailed to South Africa, a Place Viger pictorial C.P.R. post card uprated with a 1c green Numeral mailed aboard the MONT & TOR G.T. Ry / 7 railway on APR.9.1902 to Cape Town, with Observatory Road C.G.H. MAY.13 squared circle receiver. Very fine and scarce. (Scan 1) (Scan 2) (All Scans)

Get Market Data for [Canada CPR9] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census

Estimate $ 150

SOLD for C$100.00
Will close during Public Auction

1186

CPR10a

1901 C.P.R. Post Card Mailed to Zanzibar, Re-Directed to Pemba Island, a Hotel Vancouver pictorial C.P.R. post card mailed from Montréal (APR.2.1901 flag machine) to Zanzibar (MAY.4 receiver), re-directed to Pemba Island on next day. Back shows a printed statement of earnings and expenses, very fine. Pemba Island is part of Tanzania's Zanzibar Archipelago, off the coast of East Africa. (Scan 1) (Scan 2) (All Scans)

Get Market Data for [Canada CPR10a] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census

Estimate $ 400

SOLD for C$325.00
Will close during Public Auction

1187

P1/P26

Collection of Used Victoria and KEVI Stationery Post Cards,all neatly displayed on album pages with Webb numbers and descriptions, the collection includes 37 items, mostly different but with shades, etc. We note an 8c Leaf card to Scotland (with nice Hamilton Bickerdike flag cancel), 5c blue Leaf card to Austria (from Spadina Ave. Toronto), a 2c blue KVII card to Germany, a P8a card with very fine strike of Ottawa squared circle postmark dated first month of use, a P6a card with stamp at left, etc. Overall very fine, online scans only show a few examples. (Scan 1) (Scan 2) (Scan 3) (Scan 4) (Scan 5) (Scan 6) (All Scans)

Get Market Data for [Canada P1/P26] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census

Estimate $ 100

SOLD for C$70.00
Will close during Public Auction

1188

CVR

Group of Roughly 200 Victorian Postal Cards, 1880s-1890s, with cards on both sides of the range, primarily from New Brunswick and Ontario. We note broken circles, duplex, c.d.s. postmarks, with the majority coming from larger centres (roughly 25% from St. John's), along with a few smaller town, and other possible finds for the postal history specialist. Online photos show a representation of the lot. A few corner faults, overall fine to very fine.

Get Market Data for [Canada Collection] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census

Estimate $ 100

SOLD for C$120.00
Will close during Public Auction

Canada by Stamp Issue

LotNo.

Symbol

Cat No.

Lot Description

1189

CVR

28, 35

1876 Nine Times The Weight SQ and LQ Franking, a large piece (would have been used to affix to a parcel or large envelope) endorsed "On H. M. Service", mailed from Yarmouth NS (MAY.3.1876 free strike broken circle) to Halifax, franked by a pair of 1c SQ and a pair of 12½c Large Queens, all tied by bull's eye cancels, paying nine times the domestic rate.

Get Market Data for [Canada 28, 35] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census

Estimate $ 500

SOLD for C$325.00
Will close during Public Auction

1190

CVR

Group of 8 Covers Franked with a Single ½c Small Queen, some tied by fancy cork cancels, all with unsealed back flaps (as should be, to pay the ½c householder rate), 5 of which are addressed to Moncton, NB, 2 to Liverpool, NS and the 8th is addressed to Elmira. Three covers are c.d.s. dated on back, with Moncton DEC.31.1883, Liverpool DEC.7.1891 and Liverpool JAN.11.1892. Usual edge wear, creases, still overall fine or better. (Scan 1) (Scan 2) (Scan 3) (Scan 4) (Scan 5) (Scan 6) (Scan 7) (All Scans)

Get Market Data for [Canada 34] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census

Estimate $ 200

SOLD for C$150.00
Will close during Public Auction

1191

CVR

Superior Group of 6 Covers Franked with a Single ½c Small Queen, all unsealed and all have the desirable feature of being fully dated on front. 1887 Halifax to Fredericton, 1883 (July and October) Halifax to Moncton, 1893 (July and December) to "City" and a wrapper mailed from the "Philatelic Messenger" with Oak Hill NB corner card to the United States, with the stamp cancelled in 1897 at Moores Mills NB (comes with a photocopy of a January 1898 Philatelic Messenger this would have originally contained). A mostly very fine group, with a few small faults. (Scan 1) (Scan 2) (Scan 3) (Scan 4) (Scan 5) (Scan 6) (All Scans)

Get Market Data for [Canada 34] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census

Estimate $ 350

SOLD for C$170.00
Will close during Public Auction

1192

CVR

34/41

Group of 32 Small Queen Covers, with many early items, all from an old time collection put away in the early 1980s and just unuearthed, this group has a little of everything, with a 3c + 2c RLS registered cover with blue 1883 datestamp and matching blue fancy cancels, 2c drop letter, 1878 5c olive green to England, 1872 6c yellow brown to Rhode Island, 1874 6c yellow brown on cross border mourning cover, 1895 large piece with block of 30 of the half cent, 1872 piece with 6c yellow brown, 1891 half cent single on cover, 1896 bulk mailing receipt with 3c on one side and 1c on the other, 1c drop or printed matter rate covers, 1871 pair of 3c rose on cover to England with 2-ring 15, 1872 pair of 3c rose with London "6" duplex, May, June and July 1870 3c covers, and more. Condition varies from quite faulty to very fine, with a good variety of town cancels, early shades, etc. (Scan 1) (Scan 2) (Scan 3) (Scan 4) (Scan 5) (Scan 6) (Scan 7) (Scan 8) (Scan 9) (Scan 10) (Scan 11) (Scan 12) (All Scans)

Get Market Data for [Canada 34/41] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census

Estimate $ 350

SOLD for C$225.00
Will close during Public Auction

1193

Three Interesting Private Post Cards, with two illustrated cards: a lovely gold and purple card from the C.H. Binks & Co. from Montréal, mailed SEP.14.1896 (complete flag cancel) to Moncton, NB, also a lovely gold and blue card from the Lancashire Insurance Co. of Manchester, England, mailed from a small town in Ontario to Gore Bay, with JUL.9.1895 Gore Bay squared circle receiver on back. Also includes a salmon-coloured card mailed with a 1c Small Queen from Hamilton to Pinkerton, with printed back from the W.H. Glassco & Sons, dated 1874 (a very early date for this, with album adhesions). Cards have insignificant small faults, else very fine. (Scan 1) (Scan 2) (Scan 3) (All Scans)

Get Market Data for [Canada 35] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census

Estimate $ 250

SOLD for C$60.00
Will close during Public Auction

1194

CVR

Two Precancelled 1c Small Queen Seed Covers, both yellow Steele, Briggs, Marcon seed Co. illustrated advertising covers, one to Amherstburg (with April 1896 receiver on back, still unsealed) and the other to Moncton (no receiver), both franked with a single 1c Small Queen paying the printed matter rate, each with a different vertical precancel (style S and T). Very light wrinkles on one cover, still both are very fine and attractive. (Scan 1) (Scan 2) (All Scans)

Get Market Data for [Canada 35] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census

Estimate $ 150

SOLD for C$60.00
Will close during Public Auction

1195

CVR

35, 4

Group of Four Covers with Rate Handstamps, starts with three 1c Small Queen drop letters, the first is 1882 Winnipeg, with nice cork cancel, the second was mailed in 1896 in Hamilton, right after the 1c drop rate changed to 2c, so there is a "2" handstamp denoting double the deficiency. The third was mailed in 1898 from Fredericton, then re-directed to Newcastle and received a "MORE TO PAY" handstamp plus a scarce "4" handstamp denoting double the deficiency for the re-direction (a scarce practice). These three covers are clean and very fine, and written-up on pages. Also includes a (faulty) 3d red Beaver imperforate on 1858 cover, tied by a "3" rate handstamp, fine and scarce. (Scan 1) (Scan 2) (Scan 3) (Scan 4) (All Scans)

Get Market Data for [Canada 35, 4] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census

Estimate $ 200

SOLD for C$170.00
Will close during Public Auction

1196

35, F2

1884 1c SQ + 2c RLS on Registered Drop Post Card, mailed to and from London, Ontario on MAY.10.1884 (two very fine duplex strikes), franked with a 1c Small Queen paying the drop letter rate, plus a 2c Registration stamp paying that fee. Back has a printed (with hand writing) notice of court appearance. Very fine. (Scan 1) (Scan 2) (All Scans)

Get Market Data for [Canada 35, F2] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census

Estimate $ 200

SOLD for C$120.00
Will close during Public Auction

1197

CVR

35-

Group of 67 Small Queen Covers and Stationery Cards, all addressed within Canada, and includes 50x 1c QV stationery cards, along with a few drop letters and printed matter rates, 3c first class and a few registered letters. Postmark interest includes fancy, 2-ring, and broken circles, including small towns. The lot also includes a 3c Large Queen cover, a stampless 1846 cover from Montréal to Toronto, and volumes 1 and 2 of the "Postal History From The Small Queen Era" by Michael Rixon. Most of the covers are sleeved, with some covers are opened roughly and some of the postal cards have faint postmarks. See online for a sample of what can be found in this lot. (Scan 1) (Scan 2) (Scan 3) (Scan 4) (Scan 5) (Scan 6) (Scan 7) (Scan 8) (Scan 9) (Scan 10) (All Scans)

Get Market Data for [Canada 35-] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census

Estimate $ 150

SOLD for C$130.00
Will close during Public Auction

1198

CVR

35/44

Group of Roughly 80 Small Queen Covers, 1870-1890s, in a small box, with the majority of the covers franked with a 3c Small Queen. We noted about a dozen covers dated 1870 or 1871 plus about the same number of covers franked with a 3c rose carmine (41a, 41i), primarily from Ontario, and a few from Québec and New Brunswick. A cursory check of postmarks indicated a number of broken circles (including smaller towns), double broken circles, and a few 2-rings (including a nice #21 from Goderich), along with registration and a drop letter rate. Many of the covers are sleeved and a few priced for retail. We note a few small faults, including a few fronts (not included in our count). Online scans show a representation of the lot. Overall fine to very fine. (Scan 1) (Scan 2) (Scan 3) (Scan 4) (Scan 5) (Scan 6) (Scan 7) (Scan 8) (Scan 9) (Scan 10) (Scan 11) (Scan 12) (Scan 13) (Scan 14) (Scan 15) (Scan 16) (Scan 17) (Scan 18) (Scan 19) (Scan 20) (Scan 21) (Scan 22) (Scan 23) (All Scans)

Get Market Data for [Canada 35/44] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census

Estimate $ 200

SOLD for C$450.00
Will close during Public Auction

1199

CVR

35ii

1872 1c Small Queen Folded Letter with Rare Small "PRINTED MATTER" Handstamp, mailed on or about JUN.18.1872 from Toronto ("The Change List" printed inside), franked with a First Ottawa printing of the 1c Small Queen, tied by a lovely fancy cork cancel, very fine. From a recent find of a Small Queen collection which has not been seen since the early 1980s. (Scan 1) (Scan 2) (All Scans)

Get Market Data for [Canada 35ii] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census

Estimate $ 100

SOLD for C$60.00
Will close during Public Auction

1200

CVR

Three Small Queen Covers Mailed to the UK via Portland at the 6c Rate, each written-up on pages, with MAR.21.1872 pair of 3c rose shades, APR.24.1874 pair of 3c orange red with Ottawa fancy corks and JAN.8.1874 pair of 3c orange red on Credit Valley Railway cover. Two have Liverpool Packet transits on front and all three have receivers on back. A very fine trio, all three are scanned online. (Scan 1) (Scan 2) (All Scans)

Get Market Data for [Canada 37] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census

Estimate $ 150

SOLD for C$80.00
Will close during Public Auction