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;) | CANADA COVERS PERIOD JA 7 1868 - MY 2 1899, ILLUSTRATIONS of 593 COVERS (WIP-295) a digital PDF with emphasis on the early Queen Head issues with some great destinations, part or full b/w with much colour, provenance etc £200 |
;) | CANADA CENTS COVERS PERIOD JA 2 1860 - DE 28-1862, ILLUSTRATIONS of 434 COVERS (WIP-49) a digital PDF arranged in chronological sequence with 434 mainly part of full b/w illustrations, provenance etc £150 |
;) | CANADA CENTS COVERS PERIOD JA 10 1863 - DE 20 1867, ILLUSTRATIONS of 669 COVERS (WIP-50) a digital PDF with mainly part of full b/w illustrations, provenance etc £225 |
;) | CANADA PENCE COVERS PERIOD MY 1 1851 - DE 31 1856, ILLUSTRATIONS of 501 COVERS. Price £175 Mostly part or full b/w illustrations with excellence provenance. £175 |
;) | CANADA PENCE COVERS PERIOD JA 3 1857 - DE 30 1858, ILLUSTRATIONS of 480 COVERS. Price £165 Mostly part or full b/w illustrations with excellence provenance. £165 |
;) | CANADA PENCE + CENTS JA 10 1859 - DE 30 1859, ILLUSTRATIONS of 330 COVERS. Price £100 Mostly part or full b/w illustrations with excellence provenance. £100 |
;) ;) | CANADA to Melbourne, VICTORIA (CAN68018) 1893 exceptionally attractive cover front and single reverse side flap with QV 1c x 2, 5c to South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria with Try Richmond, UNCLAIMED and NOT KNOWN handstamps. £350 |
;) ;) ;) | Wreck of the 'Schiller' (Hoboken N.J, Scilly Isles, Germany's "Titanic"), Canada postal history THE ONLY RECORDED WRECK COVER ORIGINATING FROM CANADA marked "Via United States" with Small Queen 2c green x 2, QV 6c brown x 2 pmk'd HALIFAX N.S. A/AP 22 75 duplex to The Manager, The Imperial Bank, Lothbury, London taken from the wrecked S.S. Schiller on the Retarrier Ledges, Scilly Isles to London where red London Paid 10 MY 75 cds applied, reverse with handwritten contemporary endorsement of "This Envelope was down in the Sr. Ship Schiller wrecked on a rock off the Scilly Isles in the month of May 1875". Accompanied by a wonderfully easy to read pre-owned copy of "The Victorian Titanic". £3000 |
;) ;) ;) | MAIL TO CRIMEAN WAR GENERAL WHO INVENTED A HEATED CANNONBALL AS A BED-WARMER, Canada postal history 1863 cover to General Higginson, 9 Wilton Crescent, London with QV 12½c tied Montreal duplex dated AP 17 63. Grenadier Guards General Sir George Wentworth Alexander Higginson was born in Wilton Crescent Belgravia and during the Crimean War improvised a bed-warmer for the freezing nights by heating up a cannonball in the campfire. £225 |