Lot 603 Canada Selection of 102 Better Fancy Cancels on Small Queen Stamps, all displayed on black stock cards, this is a great selection including letters, sunbursts, geometric designs, Masonic, a crown, a bogey face, and more, many being easily identifiable to a specific post office. A nice quality group, ideal for collectors or dealers alike. Accompanied by a 2022 Ken Pugh letter attesting to their authenticity. Estimate C$400, sold for C$1,800.00 plus 17% buyer’s premium.
Auction #47
June 1-3, 2023
Lot 493, People’s Republic of China group of better sets from 1966 and 1967, sold for C$4,212
Lot 493 People’s Republic of China #919/959, group of better sets from 1966 and 1967, all mint never hinged, with Scott #s 919, 920-23, 927-29 (small corner fault on one stamp), 930-35, 936-37, 949-52 (small corner fault on one stamp), 953-56 and 957-59. All fresh and very fine. Scott CV U$3,835, sold for C$3,600.00 plus 17% buyer’s premium.
Lot 577, Collection of Canadian Airmail Pilot Letters, 1931-33, sold for C$351
Lot 577 Collection of Canadian Airmail Pilot Letters, 1931-1933, consisting of of twenty-three letters (fifteen are manuscript and eight are typewritten) from pilots who were responsible for first airmail flights from 1925 to 1938. Most have letterheads. They are all addressed to a California collector who wanted to have some flight covers signed, and the pilots often add some details of the flights in their letters. The letters are from the following pilots:
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- Richard H. Bibby;
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- B.W. Broatch;
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- Maurice Burbridge;
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- W. Fleming;
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- Idris G. Glyn-Roberts (x2);
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- Herbert Hollick-Kenyon;
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- Earl M. Hand (x2);
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- David A. Harding;
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- G.R. Hicks;
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- W.H. Irvine;
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- Thomas A. Lawrence;
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- C.G. Lumsden;
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- A. Daniel McLean (x2);
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- Archie M. McMullen;
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- H.C.W. Smith;
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- C. Peter Troup;
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- John Henry Tudhope;
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- Howard Watt;
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- W. Windrum;
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- J.A. Young.
There is also a note and a letter from someone at Canadian Airways giving addresses of pilots. The letters are dated from different Canadian cities and one from Egypt. The first flights for these pilots are listed in section 26 of Airmails of Canada and Newfoundland. Some of these pilots were among the best Canadian early pilots. Three won the McKee Trophy: John Henry Tudhope (1930); Maurice Burbridge (1932) and A. Daniel MacLean (1941); Two were inducted in the Aviation Hall of Fame: Maurice Burbridge and Herbert Hollick-Kenyon (both in 1974). Hollick-Kenyon was involved in the MacAlpine search expedition, the Lincoln Ellsworth Antarctic Expedition and the search for Russian pilots in the Arctic (with Archie McMullen) in 1937. All are sleeved and have old dealer annotations. Estimate C$100, sold for C$300.00 plus 17% buyer’s premium.
Lot 660, Group of four interesting Canada 1881-82 cover fronts, sold for C$1,111
Lot 660 Group of four interesting Canada 1881-1882 cover fronts, 3c SQ + 2c RLS mailed Gladstone Man. / Canada on JUL.1.1881 (broken circle free-strike) to Winnipeg; 5c SQ mailed Minnedosa / N.W.T. on MAY.21.1881 (broken circle free strike) to Dublin, Ireland; 3c SQ + 2c RLS mailed Rapid City N.W.T. / Canada on APR.3.1881 (broken circle free strike); 3c SQ mailed Minnedosa N.W.T. on APR26.1882 (partial broken circle free strike) to Madoc, Ontario, through Brandon (APR.27). Also includes a pretty 5c SQ piece with Shoal Lake / Man. FEB.9.1888 broken circle in purple, with matching colour bull’s eye on stamp. (All photos.) Estimate C$250, sold for C$950.00 plus 17% buyer’s premium.
Lot 391, Accumulation of roughly 1,450 Canada pre-cancels, sold for C$380
Lot 391 Accumulation of roughly 1,450 Canada Precancels, in eleven double sided Vario-style stock pages, from Small Queens (x6), Leaf and Numeral (x5), Edwards on up to the 1970s, with bars, town numbers, and town names. Unchecked for better items, except noting a few inverted town names. Online scans show a representation, overall fine to very fine. Estimate C$100, sold for C$325.00 plus 17% buyer’s premium.