Lot 71
1852/57, machine-made medium to thick wove paper: ½ d. deep rose, horizontal pair, at top slightly cut-into resp. touched, otherwise clear to wide margins, tied by numeral "21" to soldier's-cover with adjacent clear "MONTREAL SP 29 1857" to Ireland with transit mark of Quebec on reverse, on front clear "PKT. LETTER PAID LIVERPOOL"; the cover open at 2½ sides with tear at front right. The only known soldier's-rate letter from Canada and one of the most important pieces of Canadian postal history Provenance: Louise Boyd Dale and Alfred F. Lichtenstein (1968-70) Warren Wilkinson (2007) Joseph Hackmey (2011)
