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Auction: 17038 - Newfoundland, the Professor Albert Hamilton Collection
Lot: 53

Newfoundland
1860 Medium Hand-made Paper
Covers
1860 (15 Aug.) entire ex the Tucker correspondence from St. John's to Baltimore, bearing 4d. orange-vermilion (just-into at left), cancelled by oval of bars, showing red despatch c.d.s. partly overstruck by "5/boston br. pkt." transit c.d.s. (22.8). A neat franking being one of six covers bearing a single 4d. to the US. B.P.A. Certificate (1986). Photo

Note: This is the earliest recorded date of use of any orange-vermilion stamp.

provenance:
Robert Pratt, October 1986

literature:
Robert Pratt's The Pence Issues of Newfoundland 1857-1866", p.184, reference 1

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Estimate
£2,000 to £2,500