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Auction: 17038 - Newfoundland, the Professor Albert Hamilton Collection
Lot: 41

Newfoundland
1857-64 Thick Machine-made Paper
Covers
1859 (17 Aug.) envelope from St. John's to Hartford, Connecticut, bearing 4d. scarlet-vermilion with clear to small margins, frameline touched at right, cancelled by oval of bars, showing red despatch c.d.s. alongside and "5/boston br. pkt" transit c.d.s. (27.8). A neat and very rare cover which is unrecorded by Pratt. P.F. Certificate (1988). Photo

Note: There are only twenty-six known covers, with this stamp, addressed to the USA;, this being the only cover to the U.S. with a destination other than Baltimore, Boston, or New York

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Estimate
£2,000 to £2,500