Lot 194
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cover 3p bright blue bisect, 6p yellow-green (2a, 4; S.G.3a, 5), good margins except the former just cut into at the corner, tied by oval grid to Jul. 1860 cover from Pictou "per steamer Lady Head via (New York, deleted) River de Loup" to Scotland; cover with horizontal crease well clear of the adhesives and otherwise fine, showing Glasgow AU 22 60 transit d.s. and backstamped Pictou JY 23 1860, Quebec AU 4 60, Edinburgh AU 22 60; 7½p rate to the United Kingdom, ex Argenti (but not in his sale), with 1955 R.P.S. certificate stating "that it is probably genuine but the bisect is not tied", S.G. Cat. £2,250

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cover 3p bright blue bisect, 6p yellow-green (2a, 4; S.G.3a, 5), good margins except the former just cut into at the corner, tied by oval grid to Jul. 1860 cover from Pictou "per steamer Lady Head via (New York, deleted) River de Loup" to Scotland; cover with horizontal crease well clear of the adhesives and otherwise fine, showing Glasgow AU 22 60 transit d.s. and backstamped Pictou JY 23 1860, Quebec AU 4 60, Edinburgh AU 22 60; 7½p rate to the United Kingdom, ex Argenti (but not in his sale), with 1955 R.P.S. certificate stating "that it is probably genuine but the bisect is not tied", S.G. Cat. £2,250