Lot 208
Used to Cape Breton: 1851, 6d yellow green, good margins all around, very fine, tied by light oval grid cancels on 1857 embossed corner card envelope of the Nova Scotia Electric Telegraph Company (less top back flap) bearing a manuscript "Paid: and "p mail" on reverse LOCKS - ISLAND (now Loke Port) AP 28 - Halifax AP 30 - MY 6 SYDNEY C.B.MY 7 BADDECK- MY 9 ST ANNS transits., Ex. Dale -Lichtenstein, F.R. Mayer, Saint, Greene Cert. (1983).
SG 5; £2,200 ($3,190). (Scott 4).
Scott $1,600 Estimate $500 - 750
Addressed to Aspee Bay, the northern most point of Cape Breton. This cover took a most tortuous route. Very few advertising covers exist.
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