RARITIES AUCTION EUROPHILEX LONDON 2015

1860: Triangular 3 d. deep green, a superb large margined example used on small 1864 envelope to New Perlican, lightly tied by barred obliterator handstamp in black with fine 'St. Johns-Newfoundland-Paid' cds (Jan 9) struck in black alongside. Reverse with 'New Perlican' arrival cds (Jan 15) in black. Pratt census #33. A fine and scarce cover. Cert. Friedl (1962) Scott 11A = $ 2'000.

1860 (Aug 15): First Day of Issue, the famous cover bearing 4 d. orange-vermilion, used example with large margins at top and at base, shaved at right and touched at left, used on 1860 cover to Baltimore (Tucker correspondence) cancelled by barred obliterator in black. 'St. Johns-Newfoundland-Paid' in red alongside (Aug. 15), overstruck with 'Boston Br. Pkt. / 5' charge marking in black (Aug 22). Despite the small faults, a remarkable and...

1861: 5 d. red-brown, a fine four margined example, colour slightly affected by lightening of cancellation, used on 1865 cover to Sydney, Cape Breton endorsed 'per Merlin', tied by black segmented cork cancellation with 'St. Johns / Newfoundland' cds alongside (Dec 27) struck in red. Reverse with both 'North Sydney / NB' and  'Sydney / NB' datestamps (Jan 3, 1856) in black. Minor file folds but only 10 covers are recorded bearing the 1861 5 d...

1851/60, 1 d. red-brown, nice deep colour and good to wide margins all around, unused without gum, very fine, certificate Greene (1996)

1851/60: 1 d. red-brown on blued and 3 d. blue on blued paper, four margined examples used on 1857 cover Sydney to North Sydney, Cape Breton; tied by barred obliterators in black. Reverse with 'Sydney / CBI' datestamp (Feb 22) and 'North Sydney / CB' arrival cds of the following day. A rare franking in very fine quality for these issues on letter. Cert. PF (1976).

1 d. red-brown, 3 singles with 3 d. bright blue, all with mostly clear to wide margins, touched or slightly cut-into in places, used with grill cancels on small entire letter with clear dispatch mark "AMHERST OC 19 1860" to Wallace with faint arrival mark; one 1 d. tiny tear and the franking with slight creasing at top, otherwise fine and very attractive, a most likely unique franking of the double internal rate; certificate BPA (1999)...

3 d. deep blue, 2 pairs and single stamp, one pair with large margins all around, the others partly slightly touched, tied by grill cancel to large part of folded quintuple-rate letter from Halifax 1855 to Richibucto, New Brunswick with dispatch and transit marks on reverse; inside with complete text: the sender enclosed 28 pounds in cash and 12 postage stamps equal to 3 shillings... "I have taken 5 stamps to prepay the postage"; filing...

6 d. olive-yellow, 5 singles, one with large margins all around, the others mostly good margins, just touched or slightly cut-into in places, all tied by grill "1" to double rate lettersheet to London with red "PAID"-marking on front, tying one stamp additionally; a very fine letter with remarkable franking, the largest known of the 6 pence value on cover; certificate BPA (1999)rnProvenance: Maurice Burrus (1962), "Foxbridge"  (1987), Koh...

6 d. yellow-green, 2 single copies with clear to wide margins (one with tiny nick just touching the design) tied by oval grill to double-rate registered envelope with manuscript "Registered" from "ANNAPOLIS N.S. AP 26 1858" to St. John, New Brunswick with arrival mark; one stamp with small corner crease at top right; part of the reverse flap missing and slight usual edgewear; a rare letter, certificate Philatelic Foundation (2004)

6 d. yellow-green and 2 single copies 3 d. blue, all partly touched or slightly cut-into to mostly good margins, tied by grill cancel to double-rate registered envelope with manuscript register marking from "ALBION MINES AP ... 1859" to Halifax with frontside arrival mark of April 6; vertical filing fold through 6 d., otherwise fine; a rare franking and rate

6 d. yellow-green, quadrisected with part of adjoining stamp and ca. 12 mm sheet margin, tied by grill cancel to envelope, backstamped "BRIDGETOWN OC .. 1860", used locally with frontside notation "recd 29 Octr. 1860", very fine; only two quadrisects have been recorded in Nova Scotia Philately, used in 1860 as 2 c. at drop letter rate. One of the great rarities of British Northamerica, certificate RPS (1969)rnProvenance: Joseph Hackmey

6 d. dark green, diagonal bisect, just touched in the corner tip, otherwise large margins, tied by oval grill to lettersheet from "HALIFAX MY 6 1860" to Dorchester, New Brunswick; slight paperbreaks in the cover folds, otherwise fine and attractive; certificate Friedl Expert Committee (1978)rn rnProvenance: Wilkinson (2011), Joseph Hackmey