Lot Essay
EXPERTIZATION:
1986 B.P.A. Certificate
est.
1986 B.P.A. Certificate
est.
FOURPENCE STG. SINGLE RATE ST. JOHN'S TO PORT
cover 4p rose, deep shade (18, S.G.17), good to large margins, used with oval of bars cancellation on disintegrated folded letter, all parts present (in need of sympathetic restoration), from St. John's to Charlestown, Mass, showing St. John's Newfoundland JY 26 1864 d.s. in red, Boston Br. Pkt. AUG 6 5 marking in black and Charlestown Mass h.s. in bright red
Details
cover 4p rose, deep shade (18, S.G.17), good to large margins, used with oval of bars cancellation on disintegrated folded letter, all parts present (in need of sympathetic restoration), from St. John's to Charlestown, Mass, showing St. John's Newfoundland JY 26 1864 d.s. in red, Boston Br. Pkt. AUG 6 5 marking in black and Charlestown Mass h.s. in bright red
Provenance
Dale-Lichtenstein, 1970
Robert H. Pratt, 1986
Robert H. Pratt, 1986
Literature
Robert H. Pratt's The Postage Stamps of Newfoundland 1857-1866, 1982, p.184, reference 2-7