Lot 1089 1868 Vancouver Island cover from Victoria to Caribou, BC, with large oval Victoria PAID cancel in blue, tying and canceling two Victoria Island 10c (apparently with inverted watermark) and one 5c stamps, paying the internal 25c rate, with New Westminster FEB.20.1868 c.d.s. transit on back. Cover has light stains and tears on back, still overall fine and scarce. Ex Gerald Wellburn, and still on one of his hand-made album pages. Catalogue value given is for the three used stamps only, in fine condition, if Wellburn’s information on the inverted watermark is correct. Unitrade CV$2,000, sold for C$2,600.00 plus 17% buyer’s premium.
Gerald Wellburn
Lot 777, Canada 1941 Detained in Hong Kong AR card, Duncan BC to Hong Kong, sold for C$2,340
Lot 777 Canada 1941 Detained in Hong Kong AR Card, a Canadian AR card mailed from Duncan BC on NOV.10.1941 to Hong Kong, this AR card is franked with a 10c Memorial Chamber issue. Upon arrival in Hong Kong, it received a “Registered” c.d.s. dated NOV.22 (on back) and was put aside. At the end of the war, it also received a purple boxed “DETAINED IN HONG KONG / BY JAPANESE / FROM DECEMBER 1941 TO SEPTEMBER 1945” on front. There is also a red Japanese censor “chops” handstamp on back. A very rare card, as it was mailed during the fall of Hong Kong to the Japanese, and was likely only forwarded to its recipient sometime after the end of the War in 1945. The card is still mounted on a Gerald Wellburn album page, being a draft only, which he would have later written-up neatly in pen. Estimate C$750, sold for $2000 plus 17% buyer’s premium.