Lot 187
187
THIRTEEN CENTS = SIXPENCE HALFPENNY SINGLE RATE INTERIOR TO PORT
cover 6½p rose (21; S.G.19), small margins nearly all round, well tied by cork cancellation from a Way Station to New York, showing St. John's Newfoundland SP 5 1865 d.s. in red and Boston Br. Pkt. SEP 15 5 marking in black; the cover, slightly damaged on the reverse and with central stain from wax seal from La Manche Mine ("White" correspondence); rare

Details
cover 6½p rose (21; S.G.19), small margins nearly all round, well tied by cork cancellation from a Way Station to New York, showing St. John's Newfoundland SP 5 1865 d.s. in red and Boston Br. Pkt. SEP 15 5 marking in black; the cover, slightly damaged on the reverse and with central stain from wax seal from La Manche Mine ("White" correspondence); rare
Provenance
Robert H. Pratt collection
Literature
Robert H. Pratt's The Pence Issues of Newfoundland 1857-1866, 1982, p.188, reference 1-2

Lot Essay

EXPERTIZATION:
B.P.A. Certificate 68153, not present

NOTE:
This is one of the two covers recorded to the U.S. bearing the 6½p paying the "provisional" rate, awaiting the arrival of the cents issues. The Robert H. Pratt sale contained the sole example of this franking to the U.S. prior to April 8, 1865
est.