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Auction: 17038 - Newfoundland, the Professor Albert Hamilton Collection
Lot: 56

Newfoundland
1860 Medium Hand-made Paper
Covers
1861 (3 July) entire letter from St. John's to Boston, marked "p mail via Halifax", bearing 4d. orange-vermilion with good to large margins on three sides, just clear at right, tied by oval of bars, showing red despatch c.d.s. alongside partly overstruck by "boston/b. pkt/5" datestamp (12.7) with arrival c.d.s. on reverse. Only six covers bearing this stamp on covers to the U.S.A. are known to exist, this being the only one to Boston, the others having Baltimore addresses. B.P.A. Certificate (1986). Photo



provenance:
Dale Lichtenstein, January 1970 (sale 7)
Robert Pratt, October 1986

literature:
Robert Pratt's "The Pence Issues of Newfoundland 1857 - 1866", p.184, reference 5

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Estimate
£2,500 to £3,000