Lot 186
186
THREEPENCE CY. SINGLE COLONIAL RATE
cover 6p rose, left diagonal bisect (20a, S.G.18a), good margins, tied by light oval of bars cancellation to small neat cover from New Perlican to St. John's Newfoundland, showing New Perlican AP 18 1863 d.s. and backstamped St. John's Newfoundland AP 23 1863, both in black; everything just a little faded; very rare. S.G. Cat. £8,000

Details
cover 6p rose, left diagonal bisect (20a, S.G.18a), good margins, tied by light oval of bars cancellation to small neat cover from New Perlican to St. John's Newfoundland, showing New Perlican AP 18 1863 d.s. and backstamped St. John's Newfoundland AP 23 1863, both in black; everything just a little faded; very rare. S.G. Cat. £8,000
Provenance
E. Carey Fox, 1968
N. Clifford-Jones collection
Literature
Robert H. Pratt's The Pence Issues of Newfoundland 1857-1866, 1982, p. 154, reference 2-2

Lot Essay

EXPERTIZATION:
1966 B.P.A. Certificate

NOTE:
This is one of three recorded covers from New Perlican bearing this franking; all show the rate overpaid by ½p stg. The only other 6p rose bisect recorded on cover is the example used with 1857 1p brown violet to New York
est.