Sale 255


Lot 38



Canada, 1859, 10¢ black brown (16), pen-cancelled on cover from Longwood, U.C. to "L'Amaroux, York", Sept 30, 1859, red and black straight line "REGISTERED" handstamps, red Longwood broken circle postmark and several different backstamps; stamp has a small corner crease ending in a tiny tear and the cover is rather badly wrinkled, though it has been reasonably well flattened, otherwise Fine and scarce.
Estimate 400 - 500

The cover was sent as an ordinary double rate cover but a clerk, apparently confused by the incomplete address with "York" for York county and by the 10¢ stamp, mistakenly identified the cover as cross-border mail to either New York or York, Pa. and sent it to the exchange office at Windsor where it was backstamped on the same day it was mailed from Longwood. When the destination was finally properly identified a manuscript "PO" was added to the address after "L'Amaroux" and the cover was again backstamped at Windsor on Oct 3 and sent to Toronto (Oct 4 backstamp) and on to L'Amaroux (backstamped Oct 5 with manuscript date).


 
Realized $200



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