Fancy Cancels

Here we show two lovely stamps with fancy coloured postmarks. First up is a ten pence Cartier (Scott #7) on piece with a light red "tombstone" postmark reading PKT PAID/ LIVERPOOL/ JY 6/ 1856. The stamp is cut close and just into the design at left which results in a resanable price of $900.
Second is a seven and a halfpenny with four margins but a corner crease. It is graced by a bright red BY CANADIAN/ PACKET postmark and; unfortunately, sold almost immediately.

Our BIG news is that we have picked up enough cartons to nearly fill a cube van (10 feet by seven feet by three to four feet high - in today's measurements at least 18 cubic metres) of commercial covers. Or think of it as about 200 cartons. They are mostly from the last 25 years; a good percentage are registered (including many AR); and a good percentage are foreign. We are selling them on behalf of the estate. Come in early for first chance at what is literally hundreds of thousands of covers.
... as we said BIG news. We have a work space in our ground floor dedicated to these.

Ian Kimmerly