Lot 99
99
SIXPENCE HALFPENNY STG. SINGLE RATE INTERIOR TO PORT
cover 6½p scarlet vermilion (7; S.G.7), good to large margins all round, horizontal crease from cover fold, tied by barred oval cancellation to folded cover to Antigonish, Nova Scotia, showing St. John's Newfoundland MR 5 1857 d.s. in red, backstamped Halifax MR 10 1857 and Antigonish MA 13 1857; cover with small stain; the earliest recorded use of any "Pence" issue on cover

Details
cover 6½p scarlet vermilion (7; S.G.7), good to large margins all round, horizontal crease from cover fold, tied by barred oval cancellation to folded cover to Antigonish, Nova Scotia, showing St. John's Newfoundland MR 5 1857 d.s. in red, backstamped Halifax MR 10 1857 and Antigonish MA 13 1857; cover with small stain; the earliest recorded use of any "Pence" issue on cover
Provenance
E. Carey Fox, 1968
N. Clifford-Jones collection
Literature
Robert H. Pratt's The Pence Issues of Newfoundland 1857-1866, 1982, p. 167, reference 1-1

Lot Essay

EXPERTIZATION:
1935 R.P.S. Certificate

NOTE:
This is the earliest recorded "Pence" issue on cover by a margin of over two months. It is one of five recorded covers to the Provinces with this franking
est.