Lot no. 9191
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380th Auction

Condition

6

Catalogue no.

Opening500 €
Sold for1.500 €

1861, NORTH BRITON: Prepaid envelope from "QUEBEC NO 1 1861" with straight-line "6d Paid 7½Cy" to New Orleans, sent via Liverpool to beat the Civil War blockade,departured from Quebec but wrecked on the Mingan Islands in Labrador during a storm on 5th November with total loss but no casualties. Put on the following steamship "Anglo Saxon" and arrived Liverpool 23rd November. Transferred to "Africa", some wear as to be expected, the only known cover from this wreck.