(Advertising Stationery) 1890 1c. card with advert on reverse for 'D. Richards' Soaps' with image of a frog on a tandem; fine condition.
(British Colombia) 1871 (Jan 11) cover to England bearing single franking perf 14 25c. yellow tied by fine ‘35’ numeral, faint cds in association bottom left, Harlow arrival backstamp. The stamp has been roughly removed from sheet at base, whereas at top shows all of the above stamp.
(Hotel Advertising) 1927 Hotel Carls-Rite colour advertising envelope fine used from Toronto to Wilmington, USA
(Hotel Envelope) 1907 fine colour illustrated envelope for 'King Edward Hotel, Toronto' used to Ottawa and franked 2c., some slight faults to sides of envelope. Attractive item.
(Nova Scotia) 1845 (JY 23) entire to Hartford, Conn.bearing fine example of ‘Paid at Amherst. N.S.’ crown circle, the Amehurst cds on reverse together with St Andrews N.B. transit, “11 ½ “ accountancy with ‘10’ for United States. Fine and scarce.
(Picture Advertising Stationery) 1890 1c. card for a ‘Wholesale Druggist’, good used from Hamilton to Galt, Ont.
(Scotland) 1835 Missent to Falmouth Packet: Entire addressed to Pickering, Canada, endorsed “By Liverpool and New York” but forwarded in error to Falmouth where framed ‘Mifsent to/FALMOUTH’ applied and returned to Liverpool, at New York ‘SHIP’ and ‘FORWARDED’ handstamps added plus cds, reverse with red Upper Canada and Haddington date stamps, two green Queenston cds on front, manuscript “2/5 ½“ charge at right; fine and unusual.
1851 (OCT 1) entire to Franklin, Oakland Co., Michighan bearing Toronto Canada Paid date stamp together with cursive framed CANADA/ PAID 10Cts as well as American PAID 10 cursive handstamp; good quality strikes on small neat entire.
1851-57 10c. Washington, type III (Sc 14) with close to full margins tied by blueBerkley Mass. date stamp, addressed to Carlton Place, Canada West. At left red two-line UNITED STATES/ PAID 6 accountancy. Reverse with faint Toronto transit and arrival cds.
1852 (JY 22) entire to Quebec, Canada endorsed “Via Steamship/ to/ New York” bottom left and “Paid Ship 4d/ Inland 8d” top right, with Jamaica Paid (JY 24) double-arc date stamp, reverse with Montego Bay Jamaica date stamp, St Thomas transit (JY 31) and various arrivals. Entire from “Providence Estate, St James” addressed to a member of the Legislative Council with both Quebec and Toronto included in address and forwarded between them with a 3d. charge at Quebec but no further charges raised; light vertical filing crease.
1852 (My 26) Folded cover to Halifax, Nova Scotia with Ulverstone dispatch cds in blue, manuscript notation 'Missent to/Fredericton', rated 10 and 1/3 with Fredericton and Liverpool backstamps, fine.
1853 (MY 26) stampless mourning cove to Nova Scotia bearing ABERDEEN cds in green overstruck with “10d” charge handstamp, handstruck ‘1/3’ at centre, reverse with Liverpool transit partly missing from wax seal removal and red Bridgwater arrival cds.
1853 double rate entire to Toronto, Canada with Falmouth Jamaica double arc date stamp and to right Jamaica Paid double-arc date stamp, reverse with, St Thomas transit. Entire from “Water Valley Estate, Trelawny” addressed to a member of the Legislative Council, redirected to Quebec with FORWARDED, MORE-TO-PAY and PAID 6 handstamps on front. Small part of reverse missing, unusual destination.
1857 outer letter sheet to Quebec franked by 1852-57 imperf 3d ‘Beaver’ and 6d. ‘Prince Albert’ both cancelled by fine ‘21’ numerals with Montreal cds in association below, arrival backstamp. The 3d with four fine margins and the 6c. with two large margins, complete but close margin at top and the right side not visible but appears complete from reverse. A very fine and attractive item.
1859 (April 18) cover to England franked pair 10d. 'Jacques Cartier' tied by two bar obliterators with crown framed 'Legislative Assembly/ April 18/ 1859/Canada' handstamp, London transit. The left-hand stamp with four fine margins and that on the right with three goood margins; a fine and attractive double weight cover
1863 cover and original letter to Honeye, Ontario Co., NY, USA, bearing Aurora cds and two-line PAID/ CANADA-10-CENTS handstamp, slight faults to envelope.
1863 stampless cover to Quebec bearing Kempville despatch cds and UNPAID 7 for the 1/2 oz rate. (If prepaid would have been 5c.)
1864 (SP 3) cover from Dingle to Goderich, franked at 15c. triple rate with 1859 5c. 'Beaver' and 10c 'Prince Consort' tied by two pen strokes with despatch cds at lower left, transit and arrival backstamps; folded at left and minor marks, still much above average for such a franking
1864 registered cover to Glasgow, endorsed "Per Royal Mail Route" and bearing straight-line REGISTERED and framed POST OFFICE/ VICTORIA VANCOUVER handtsamp, franked United States 24c. tied target handstamp and by New York Registered date stamp,San Francisco transit cds bottom left, cursive (crown) Registered and London Paid cds arrival backstamp; some faults to envelope but still an attractive example of rare registered mail.
1880 Line Engraved overprints selection with two ½d. plate 15, OD of good colour and lightly hinged, LD slight fading hinged mint, 1d. JA plate 201, EG plate 215, JJ plate 216, SA plate 217, ND plate 218, GI plate 218 and OB plate 220 with light diagonal gum crease, fresh hinged mint.