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Auction: 21045 - The Alan Holyoake Grand Prix Collection of British and International Registered Mail
Lot: 208

(x) The Americas
Canada
Mail From the United Kingdom
1822 (27 Feb.) entire letter to John Stuart of the North West Company, North America, manuscript "Paid 2/7" and "18", a very faint strike of Forres boxed datestamp in black and a very fine strike of boxed "paid in the/country" datestamp (1.3) (Willcocks 532) in red. This is a rare North West Company Canoe Brigade, sent across Canada and over the Rocky Mountains to New Caledonia. There are two vertical folding creases and a tear on the top flap.

Prepaid 2/2d. Falmouth packet to New York and collect 18c. (11d.) plus Canadian postage to Montreal for a total of 1/5d. to collect

John Stuart, a fur trader and explorer was an assistant to Simon Fraser and explored much of British Columbia, establishing several forts and remained a prominent figure in British Columbia for several decades. He was made chief factor of New Caledonia after the merging of the North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company in 1821


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£420

Starting price
£350