A remarkable group of Canadian postal history treasures will cross the auction block this month as Eastern Auctions presents the Camellia PLC Collection – Canada Part I, an extraordinary offering of classic material set for Nov. 22 in Bathurst, N.B. Among the sale’s headline pieces are some of the most celebrated items in Canadian philately, including the only recorded Large Queen cover to Siam, the famous 12-Penny Black cover cancelled in blue, and a 71-cent registered letter to Prussia—the highest known franking to any destination outside the United Kingdom. Continue reading →
A two-cent rose cover mailed from Oshawa, Ont. to Port Colborne, Ont. on March 24, 1866 and addressed to Pte. John Luke of the Volunteer Militia is offered as Lot 130. Only seven two-cent soldier letters are known, and just three bear a two-cent adhesive.
