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Auction: 7016 - British North America featuring the "JURA" Collection
Lot: 2671

x British Columbia and Vancouver Island Postal History 1865 (29 July) large part envelope (220x82mm., some vertical creases) from the Governor to Justice Begbie at Cariboo and showing two strikes of the "general post office/british columbia" double-ring d.s. Photo Estimate £ 120-150 Note: Matthew Begbie (1819-94) was born in Mauritius. He became a barrister and in 1858 the Solicitor-General, Sir Hugh McCalmont Cairns, put his name forward for the position as judge of the new colony of British Columbia. He was appointed and arrived in Victoria on 16 November 1858. He was instrumental in the preparation of much colonial legislation and he brought British law to the scattered mining communities

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