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Auction: 7016 - British North America featuring the "JURA" Collection
Lot: 2129

x CANADA The Large Queen Issue Twelve and a Half Cent Blue Ottawa Printings, Perforated 12 Covers 1869 (1 Feb.) envelope from Montreal "pr Cunard Steamer" to Ryde, Isle of Wight, bearing 12 1/2c. blue in combination with 3c. brown-red, both on wove paper, sharing light strikes of the bars duplex and showing, on reverse Ryde c.d.s. (15.2). an attractive franking of the 15c. ( 1/2c. overpaid) rate Cunard Line rate via New York carried on the Australasian. A rare and most attractive franking. Photo Estimate £ 1,500-2,000 provenance: L. Gerald Firth, 1971

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