Lot 146
146
FOURPENCE STG. SINGLE RATE ST. JOHN'S TO PORT
cover 4p orange (12; S.G.12), large margins, pale color, used with oval of bars cancellation on folded cover from St. John's to Sydney, Cape Breton, showing St. John's Newfoundland NO 8 1860 d.s. in red, backstamped North Sydney NO 2 (sic) 1860 d.s. in black; rare

Details
cover 4p orange (12; S.G.12), large margins, pale color, used with oval of bars cancellation on folded cover from St. John's to Sydney, Cape Breton, showing St. John's Newfoundland NO 8 1860 d.s. in red, backstamped North Sydney NO 2 (sic) 1860 d.s. in black; rare
Provenance
Dale-Lichtenstein, 1970
Fryer, 1977
Robert H. Pratt, 1986
Literature
Robert H. Pratt's The Pence Issues of Newfoundland 1857-1866, 1982, p. 165, reference 2-1

Lot Essay

EXPERTIZATION:
1986 B.P.A. Certificate

NOTE:
This is one of two recorded covers bearing a single 4p orange to the Provinces; see lot 147 for the other
est.