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Auction: 7016 - British North America featuring the "JURA" Collection
Lot: 2086

x CANADA The Large Queen Issue Five Cents Olive-Green Montreal Printings, Perforated 11 1/2x12 Covers 1875 (28 Sept.) mourning envelope from Montreal to Liverpool, bearing 5c. olive-green, perforated 11.6x12 in combination Small Queen 3c. rose-red each cancelled with heavy impressions of the bars duplex, Liverpool arrival c.d.s. (11.10) on reverse. The earliest recorded postal use of the 5c. value. Photo Estimate £ 3,500-4,000 Note: The postal rate to the U.K. was reduced to 5c. per 1/2oz. by either route from 1 October 1875, for which for which the appropriate stamp was needed. As no 5c. "Small Queen" plate was available the "Large Queen" die, which had apparently been produced in 1867, was used to produce a plate The above cover was sent to England three days before the rate was reduced, when the 8c. rate via New York still applied. The cover was carried on the Inman Line vessel "City of Berlin" which left New York on 2 October, arriving at Queenstown on 10 October — see "North Atlantic Mail Sailings, 1840-75" by Hubbard and Winter provenance: Malcolm Montgomery

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