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Auction: 7016 - British North America featuring the "JURA" Collection
Lot: 2363

x CANADA The Small Queen Issue Eight Cents Grey Covers 1894 (9 Apr.) double rate envelope registered from Toronto to England, bearing 8c. pale bluish grey, 3c. orange pair and 1c. yellow (both placed inverted) twice cancelled with large double-oval "toronto/1/ont" handstamp, showing "R" in oval h.s., Toronto c.d.s. (9.4) and London Registered hooded d.s. (21.4) in red; an attractive franking with the 8c. seldom used on mail to overseas destinations. Photo Estimate £ 180-200 Note: Foreign use of Registered Letter stamps was abolished on 1 January 1894

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