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Auction: 7016 - British North America featuring the "JURA" Collection
Lot: 2385

x CANADA The Small Queen Issue Ten Cents Montreal Printings, Perforated 11 1/2x12 Covers 1879 (10 Dec.) envelope from Carleton Station, N.B. "Via san Francisco" to Wellington, New Zealand, bearing 10c. pale lilac-magenta and perf. 12 5c. deep olive-green each with segmented cork cancellations and showing despatch c.d.s. at lower left corner, the reverse with Windsor, Ont. (13.12), San Francisco (19.12) and Wellington (14.1) c.d.s.; an attractive pre-U.P.U. rate to an unusual destination. Photo Estimate £ 800-1,000 provenance: Vincent G. Greene, 1975 Norman Brassler

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