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Bidboard # 1849
Lot # 100
Catalogue Value or Estimate: $150.00
Price Realized: $90
Canada Literature and more

Canada/British Commonwealth Cover, Stamp and Reference Book Embarrassment of Riches. Banker's box packed with a wealth of material as received. Noted in the mix are a quartet of Canada GeoV Admiral 5c to 10c UPU rate covers (retail $25-$35 each), two small manila folders of mint and used Newfoundland, large blocks of Canada #219 & #225 with Barkerville CDS cancels, smatterings of mint Canada & US postage, a half-dozen 19th century BC related registered letter bills/advice of money order forms (Clinton/Ashcroft Station/Quesnell) plus a stack of philatelic/postal history/general history reference books. Worth mentioning are Canada Post Offices 1755-1895 by Frank W. Campbell, Cambridge Historical Series: Canada 1760-1905, Scotland in Stamps, Historic Hastings (the Ontario County), the Sideways Duplex Cancellations of England and Wales by Traill and Holland, Stanley Gibbons GB Queen Victoria Specialized Stamp Catalogue, Volume 1, 4th edition, Stanley Gibbons GB Edward VII to GeoVI Specialized Stamp Catalogue, Volume 2, 2nd edition reprint, Collect British Postmarks, 3rd edition, Postage Stamps and Postal of the Bahamas by Gisburn (1950) and Allan Steinhart – Postal Historian by Handelman and Scrimgeour (1997). An eclectic and possibly quite useful grouping (for the right person). Estimate