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Auction: 143 - The "Fordwater" Collection of Canada and B.N.A. Colonies
Lot: 279

Canada balance of the "Fordwater" collection comprised of many hundreds of mint singles from 1859 to 2010, plus some multiples and many shades and varieties among the pre-1920 issues, all housed in six Lighthouse hingeless albums, the first of which contains the issues to 1971 and back-of-the-book, while the remaining five are all the modern issues with a substantial cumulative face value, the 1859 issue includes 1c (2), 5c, 10c (2) and 12½c values, then Large Queens with most values represented including many 15c shades, good Small Queens with shades and multiples, 1897 1c-50c Jubilee, 1897-98 ½c-10c Maple Leaves, 1898-1902 ½c-20c Numerals, 1903-08 1c-50c Edward with duplication for shades, including an n.h. 50c, then virtually complete, including numerous shades, printings and varieties of the Admiral issues, the back-of-the-book issues are also highly complete, the overall quality is quite nice, the 19th century includes some off center, the occasional small fault and some unused or regummed, there are also numerous fine and better o.g. and many are n.h., the 20th century is almost all o.g., overwhelmingly n.h. and fine to extremely fine; five certificates accompany.

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$14,000