Lot 100
100
SIXPENCE HALFPENNY STG. SINGLE RATE INTERIOR TO PORT
cover 6½p scarlet vermilion (7; S.G.7), small margin at places, used with barred oval cancellation on Newfoundland Marine Assurance office printed cover from a way office through St. John's to Charlottestown, Prince Edward Island, showing circular framed D 3c. marking; backstamped St. John's Newfoundland AU 30 1859 and Prince Edward Island SE 6 1859; 6½p very slightly sulphurized, the cover very slightly soiled; scarce

Details
cover 6½p scarlet vermilion (7; S.G.7), small margin at places, used with barred oval cancellation on Newfoundland Marine Assurance office printed cover from a way office through St. John's to Charlottestown, Prince Edward Island, showing circular framed D 3c. marking; backstamped St. John's Newfoundland AU 30 1859 and Prince Edward Island SE 6 1859; 6½p very slightly sulphurized, the cover very slightly soiled; scarce
Provenance
Sidney Harris, 1968
John Hubbard collection
Robert H. Pratt, 1986
Literature
Robert H. Pratt's The Pence Issues of Newfoundland 1857-1866, 1982, p. 167, reference 1-3

Lot Essay

NOTE:
This is one of five recorded covers to the Provinces with this franking and the only one of the five addressed to Prince Edward Island
est.