cover 6p mustard-yellow (2a; S.G.2b), good margins, used with 3p dull red (1, S.G.2), just clear to good margins, tied by void oval grids to Feb. 1852 folded cover to Halifax, Nova Scotia; backstamped blue Chatham FE 12 1852, indistinct Bend of Petticodiac d.s., Halifax FE 18 1852; letter with side flaps missing, the stamps fine; very scarce, 9p triple rate to Nova Scotia, with 1985 V.G. Greene certificate (describing the stamps as Scott 1 and 2 on part cover) | Christie's

Lot 51

cover 6p mustard-yellow (2a; S.G.2b), good margins, used with 3p dull red (1, S.G.2), just clear to good margins, tied by void oval grids to Feb. 1852 folded cover to Halifax, Nova Scotia; backstamped blue Chatham FE 12 1852, indistinct Bend of Petticodiac d.s., Halifax FE 18 1852; letter with side flaps missing, the stamps fine; very scarce, 9p triple rate to Nova Scotia, with 1985 V.G. Greene certificate (describing the stamps as Scott 1 and 2 on part cover)

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cover 6p mustard-yellow (2a; S.G.2b), good margins, used with 3p dull red (1, S.G.2), just clear to good margins, tied by void oval grids to Feb. 1852 folded cover to Halifax, Nova Scotia; backstamped blue Chatham FE 12 1852, indistinct Bend of Petticodiac d.s., Halifax FE 18 1852; letter with side flaps missing, the stamps fine; very scarce, 9p triple rate to Nova Scotia, with 1985 V.G. Greene certificate (describing the stamps as Scott 1 and 2 on part cover)