Lot 138
138
1860 ISSUE ON COVER SIXPENCE CY. REGISTERED COLONIAL RATE
cover 3p green, pair (11A; S.G.11), large margins all round, creased from cover fold at left, small scissor cut at lower right, tied by oval of bars cancellations to folded cover from St. John's to Trinity, showing St. John's Newfoundland AP 21 1864 and Trinity MY 10 1864 d.s. in red and black respectively; very rare

Details
cover 3p green, pair (11A; S.G.11), large margins all round, creased from cover fold at left, small scissor cut at lower right, tied by oval of bars cancellations to folded cover from St. John's to Trinity, showing St. John's Newfoundland AP 21 1864 and Trinity MY 10 1864 d.s. in red and black respectively; very rare
Provenance
John F. Seybold, 1910
Dale-Lichtenstein, 1968
Ralph Hart, 1977
N. Clifford-Jones collection
Literature
Robert H. Pratt's The Pence Issues of Newfoundland 1857-1866, 1982, p. 156, reference 2-1

Lot Essay

EXPERTIZATION:
1974 B.P.A. Certificate

NOTE:
This was listed by Robert H. Pratt as an example of the registered rate which had come into effect on September 1, 1863; registered mail was carried in green wrappers and Newfoundland registered covers do not usually bear registered endorsements until the 1880's. Had the cover appeared to have been heavy, then a double rate could have been inferred.
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