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Auction: 17038 - Newfoundland, the Professor Albert Hamilton Collection
Lot: 40

Newfoundland
1857-64 Thick Machine-made Paper
Covers
1858 (11 Nov.) entire letter from St. John's to Boston, bearing 4d. scarlet-vermilion with good to large margins, tied by oval of bars, showing "st. johns newfoundland/paid" c.d.s. in red, handstruck "5" and "boston5Cts//br. pkt." datestamp (19.11). A rare and desirable four pence single rate franking, and one of thirty-two recorded. Photo

provenance:
Dale Lichtenstein, January 1970 (sale 7)
Robert Pratt, October 1986
Dr. Chan Chin Cheung, September 1995
William Gross, November 2009

literature:
Robert Pratt's The Pence Issues of Newfoundland 1857-1866, p.179, reference 9

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Estimate
£6,000 to £7,000