Lot 52
52
cover 3p bright red, 6p mustard-yellow (1a, 2a; S.G.1, 2b), both with good margins, tied by void oval grids to Dec. 1851 cover from Chatham to San Francisco; backstamped blue Chatham DE 16 1851, black St. John DE 22 1851, showing San Francisco 13 Feb arrival d.s. and red "PAID" and "NOT CALLED FOR", black handstruck "1" and manuscript "15", manuscript "Opened by mistake by Geo Davidson Custom House" on the reverse; 6p with small closed tear and somewhat discolored, cover with faults including a filing crease ending in a tear; very rare, 9p rate to Oregon and California

Details
cover 3p bright red, 6p mustard-yellow (1a, 2a; S.G.1, 2b), both with good margins, tied by void oval grids to Dec. 1851 cover from Chatham to San Francisco; backstamped blue Chatham DE 16 1851, black St. John DE 22 1851, showing San Francisco 13 Feb arrival d.s. and red "PAID" and "NOT CALLED FOR", black handstruck "1" and manuscript "15", manuscript "Opened by mistake by Geo Davidson Custom House" on the reverse; 6p with small closed tear and somewhat discolored, cover with faults including a filing crease ending in a tear; very rare, 9p rate to Oregon and California
Provenance
Morton
Argenti, 1963
Cartier, 1977
"Foxbridge", 1987
Literature
Nicholas Argenti's New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, P. 46, 1962

Lot Essay

This is a very rare cover for three reasons. It is one of four covers recorded as bearing the 6p mustard-yellow; it is one of the very few 1851 covers known bearing adhesives. It is one of only two covers recorded to California (see lot 63 for the other)