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Auction: 18010 - British North America, The David Pitts Collection
Lot: 175

(x) Prince Edward Island
Pence Issue Covers
Internal Mail
1868 (21 Sept.) octuple rate blue envelope (247x106mm.) from Charlotte Town to Port Hill, bearing perf. 11½-12 1d. brown-orange and 3d. blue vertical strip of three and a pair with indistinct cancellations, P5 datestamp below; some faults as to be expected with an item of this size. An almost certainly unique franking. Greene Foundation Certificate (2010). Photo

Note: It has been suggested that this could also be considered a quintuple rate registered item as postmasters were notoriously lax in marking registered items as such

provenance:
Dr. R.V.C. Carr, April 1999

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Estimate
£2,000 to £2,500