Lot Essay
NOTE:
This is one of the five covers to the U.S. with this franking
est.
This is one of the five covers to the U.S. with this franking
est.
SIXPENCE HALFPENNY STG. SINGLE RATE FROM INTERIOR TO PORT
cover 4p scarlet vermilion and 3p green (4, 3; S.G.4 and S.G.3), with neat oval of bars cancellations on folded cover from Harbour Grace to Baltimore; both stamps with good to large margins all round, the 3p crossed by a filing crease, the 4p very fine; folded cover showing St. John's Newfoundland MR 31 1858 transit d.s. in red and U.S. APR 11 marking in black; docketed on flaps "Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, March 27, Recd. April 13"; rare
Details
cover 4p scarlet vermilion and 3p green (4, 3; S.G.4 and S.G.3), with neat oval of bars cancellations on folded cover from Harbour Grace to Baltimore; both stamps with good to large margins all round, the 3p crossed by a filing crease, the 4p very fine; folded cover showing St. John's Newfoundland MR 31 1858 transit d.s. in red and U.S. APR 11 marking in black; docketed on flaps "Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, March 27, Recd. April 13"; rare
Provenance
Maurice Burrus, 1963
Sidney Harris, 1968
Claude Cartier, 1977
Foxbridge, 1987
Sidney Harris, 1968
Claude Cartier, 1977
Foxbridge, 1987
Literature
Robert H. Pratt's The Pence Issues of Newfoundland 1857-1866, 1982, p. 187, reference 2-1