Lot 1956 Great Britain Group of 39 Stock Pages and 33 Album Pages of Mint and Used Victoria and Kings Stamps, and a few stock cards with interest for shades, cancels and plates. Scan a shows a group with cancel interest with many foreign offices cancels such as C30 (Valparaiso), B01 (Alexandria, Egypt), C51 (St Thomas, Virgin Is.), A25 (Malta), A26 (Gibraltar). More interesting cancels scattered throughout. Large format stamps to the 10sh., Victoria Scott #109, a nice selection of Seahorses, some early mint postage dues confirm the interest of this lot. See scans for a sampling of this lot. Fine to very fine. Estimate $800, sold for C$1,350.00 plus 17% buyer’s premium.
Alexandria Egypt
Lot 1210, Canada 1915 pair of Military Chaplain postcards, sold for $632
Military postal history always seems to do well, with unexpected rarities sometimes commanding several multiples of our advance estimate.
Lot 1210 1915 World War I Military Chaplain Postcards, includes a 1915 card from the “Senior Canada Chaplain” at No. 5 Canadian stationary hospital in Alexandria, Egypt home to Toronto. Also a 1915 card from Cairo, Egypt with a “Canadian Chaplain” handstamp to Ottawa. Both with creases, but scarce. Estimate $120, sold for C$550 plus buyer’s premium.
Lot 359 — Canada ten cent dull lilac rose Small Queen cover to Suez Arabia
Lot 359 Canada 1878 10c UPU letter rate cover to Arabia, franked with a 10c dull lilac rose, tied by a duplex cancel, paying the 10c double weight UPU letter rate. Mailed from Toronto (OCT.15.1878) to Suez, Arabia (receiver on back) via London (Oct. 28 transit in red), Alexandria, Egypt (transit on back). A lovely and fresh cover, slightly reduced at left, very fine. (Unitrade 40)
An exceptional cover in all aspects, from the light cancel on the stamp, the overall fresh “bloom,” to the exotic destination where it was sent. The only recorded solo use of the 10c value to Arabia (Egypt) and arguably amongst the finest and most important usages of the 10c value on UPU covers. Based on an unpublished census of 10c covers, this is also the earliest UPU rate cover bearing a 10c stamp.
Provenance: Unknown collector, Sissons auction (1976).
Estimate $5,000