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Auction: 7016 - British North America featuring the "JURA" Collection
Lot: 2297

x Canada The Small Queen Issue Five Cents Montreal Printings, Perforated 11 1/2x12 1877 (4 Aug.) envelope "Per Canadian Packet" to England, handed in on the Intercolonial Railway at Riviere Du Loup and showing their oval dated cachet for 4 August in blue and Rimouski transit c.d.s. for the same day on reverse, bearing 5c. deep olive-green twice cancelled with "canadian pkt." c.d.s. for 13 August and with large manuscript "7 1/2" British charge in pencil. A scarce franking of the 5c. per 1/2oz. preferred rate to the United Kingdom. Photo Estimate £ 300-400 Note: The Intercolonial Railway, connecting Halifax, N.S. and St. John, N.B., with the rest of Canada on 3 July 1876 enabled mails to be transferred at Rimouski in summer

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