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Auction: 17038 - Newfoundland, the Professor Albert Hamilton Collection
Lot: 55

Newfoundland
1860 Medium Hand-made Paper
Covers
1860 (5 Dec.) entire from St. John's to Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, bearing 4d. orange-vermilion with good to large margins, lightly cancelled by oval of bars (not tied) and showing red despatch datestamp with, on reverse, legible arrival datestamp (8.12). Only ten covers franked with this stamp are known with this being one of two 4d covers addressed to the Provinces. R.P.S. Certificate (1968). Photo

provenance:
E. Carey Fox, May 1968
"John Foxbridge"
Dr. Chan Chin Cheung, September 1995

literature:
Robert Pratt's "The Pence Issues of Newfoundland 1857 - 1866, p.165, reference 2

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Sold for
£800