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Auction: 18010 - British North America, The David Pitts Collection
Lot: 215

(x) Prince Edward Island
Pence Issue Covers
Mail to Nova Scotia
1870 (1 July) envelope from Charlotte Town to Cape Breton Island, bearing 1870 4½d. yellow-brown neatly cancelled by "prince edward island" double-arc datestamp (P5a), Halifax transit datestamp on reverse; a most unusual usage of a Packet stamp to pay this rate. The earliest recorded usage of this stamp and the latest recorded date of use of the P5a datestamp. Photo

provenance:
Martyn Cusworth, March 2005

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Estimate
£6,000 to £8,000