Lot 402
Canada, 1852, Beaver, 3d red, diagonal bisect (Unitrade 4b), bottom right diagonal half attached to the top of a horizontal pair, mostly large margins except clear to cutting at left, small scissor cut between bisect and stamp below, rich color, tied by concentric ring cancel across bisect on cover to England, bold "Montreal L.C., SP 10 1856" origin c.d.s., endorsed "Per North America, bold red "Pkt. Letter, Liverpool, 24 SP 1856" tombstone arrival datestamp, Barnard Castle (9.25) and Darlington (9.25) backstamp transits; a bit reduced at top with a sealed tear extending into tombstone cancel not noted on cert., a Very Fine example of this bisect rarity. Scott 4b.
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
A MOST ATTRACTIVE AND BEAUTIFULLY TIED EXAMPLE OF THIS EXCEEDINGLY RARE BISECT, OF WHICH ONLY A TOTAL OF THREE ARE RECORDED.
Expertization: 1990 R.P.S. Certificate.
Provenance: Carrington
This cover was carried on the Allan Line "North America" leaving Quebec on September 13, 1856 and arriving into Liverpool on Sept. 24. The Canadian packet rate to England became 7½d in May of 1856, yet the 7½d value intended to prepay this rate was not issued until May 23, 1857.
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| Realized $35,000 |
