Lot 151
151
SIXPENCE STG. SINGLE RATE TO ENGLAND
cover 6p orange (13, S.G.14), good to large margins on three sides, frame line just touched in places at foot, tied by oval of bars cancellation to cover from St. John's to London, showing St. John's Newfoundland OC 24 1860 d.s. and backstamped London NO 12 60, both in red; cover with some staining at edges and on reverse; very rare

Details
cover 6p orange (13, S.G.14), good to large margins on three sides, frame line just touched in places at foot, tied by oval of bars cancellation to cover from St. John's to London, showing St. John's Newfoundland OC 24 1860 d.s. and backstamped London NO 12 60, both in red; cover with some staining at edges and on reverse; very rare
Provenance
Dale-Lichtenstein, 1969
N. Clifford-Jones collection
Literature
Robert H. Pratt's The Pence Issues of Newfoundland 1857-1866, 1982, p. 172, reference 2-1

Lot Essay

NOTE:
This is one of two covers recorded with this franking; see lot 152 for the other
est.