Lot 223
New Brunswick 1851, 6d olive yellow (2), with large to ample margins all round except touched at right corner, tied by straight line "Paid" handstamp in red and showing matching "Colonial Express Mail" on 1856 envelope to Vergennes, Vt., "St. John, N.B./Dec 8 "c.d.s. adjacent, with "Favor's Express/Steamer Admiral/Dec 1856" c.d.s. in red on reverse, Very Fine and scarce usage. SG 4.
Estimate 3,000 - 4,000
Colonel Favor had an annual grant to carry the mail from St. John to Boston via Eastport and Portland. The U.S. permitted the mail to be carried free in closed bags over the Montreal-Portland railway.
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