cover 5p orange brown (19a), goood margins, tied by cork cancellation to folded cover from St. John's to Sydney, Cape Breton, St. John's Newfoundland DE 27 1865 d.s. in red and backstamped North Sydney JA 3 1866 in black; the 5p crossed by cover fold and with surface abrasion at foot | Christie's

Lot 182

182

TEN CENTS = FIVEPENCE STG. SINGLE RATE ST. JOHN'S TO PORT

cover 5p orange brown (19a), goood margins, tied by cork cancellation to folded cover from St. John's to Sydney, Cape Breton, St. John's Newfoundland DE 27 1865 d.s. in red and backstamped North Sydney JA 3 1866 in black; the 5p crossed by cover fold and with surface abrasion at foot

Details

cover 5p orange brown (19a), goood margins, tied by cork cancellation to folded cover from St. John's to Sydney, Cape Breton, St. John's Newfoundland DE 27 1865 d.s. in red and backstamped North Sydney JA 3 1866 in black; the 5p crossed by cover fold and with surface abrasion at foot

Provenance

Jephcott, 1950

Literature

Robert H. Pratt's The Pence Issues of Newfoundland 1857-1866, 1982, page 166, reference 9
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