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Auction: 6010 - Important Stamps & Covers of the World - Washington Philatelic Exhibition Auction
Lot: 171

Newfoundland 1860 (23 Apr.) blue entire from Carbonear to Baltimore, bearing 1857 61/2d. scarlet-vermilion with good to large margins and neatly cancelled with oval of bars, showing "carbonear" double-arc d.s., St. John´s Paid c.d.s. (29.4) in red and "5/boston br pkt" c.d.s. (4/5), all on face; two filing creases clear of the adhesive. B.P.A. Certificate (2000). Sc. 7; S.G. 7 Estimate US$ 8,000-10,000provenance: Carnegie Museum Collection, 1981

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