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Auction: 7016 - British North America featuring the "JURA" Collection
Lot: 2189

x CANADA The Small Queen Issue Half Cent Black Ottawa Printings Covers 1895 (16 Aug.) envelope from Halifax, Nova Scotia to St. John´s, Newfoundland, bearing 1/2c. grey-black strips of three (2) neatly cancelled with squared-circle d.s., arrival c.d.s. (19.8) on reverse. Believed to be the only such franking of the preferred 3c. per 1oz. rate to Newfoundland. Photo Estimate £ 200-250 provenance: George B. Arfken, 1997

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