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Auction: 7016 - British North America featuring the "JURA" Collection
Lot: 2711

x British Columbia and Vancouver Island Express Company Mail Wells, Fargo Express Company 1869 (c.) envelope with "Victoria, Vancouver Island" imprint to Henry Nathan and bearing British Columbia 1865-67 wing-margin 3d. blue tied by pen cross, and a similar envelope to John Tays at Walla Walla bearing uncancelled 3d. Estimate £ 150-200 Note: Henry Nathan was a merchant in Victoria. After Confederation he was an ardent supporter of Dr. Helmcken in pressing for the construction of the transcontinental railway down Bute Inlet and across Seymour Narrows to terminate at Esquimalt

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