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Auction: 7016 - British North America featuring the "JURA" Collection
Lot: 2113

x CANADA The Large Queen Issue Six Cents Blackish Brown/Yellowish Brown Ottawa Printings, Perforated 12 Covers 1871 (12 June) pale pink envelope from Montreal to a U.S. Lieutenant on the "U.S. Steam Ship "Plymouth" care B.H. Stevens U.S. Dispatch Agt" London, bearing 6c. yellow-brown in combination with 2c. green, both fresh, placed sideways and cancelled with light bars duplex, showing a fine strike of the "united states/despatch agent/b. f. stevens/london" double-oval d.s. for 27 June and partially overcancelled with London paid c.d.s. of the same date, both in red; the envelope with a few small faults though a most unusually addressed via U.S. franking carried on the Guion vessel Idaho. Photo Estimate £ 800-1,000 Note: United States Despatch Agents are State Department employees, whose duties include handling diplomatic pouches and private mail directed to naval personnel stationed abroad This cover is illustrated on page 191 of the Robson Lowe Encyclopaedia, Vol. V

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