Lot 50026 – BELLEVILLE: 1852–57 3d Red on Medium Hard Wove Cover,

BELLEVILLE: 1852–57 3d Red on Medium Hard Wove Cover, Belleville Numeral Cancellation

3d red on medium hard wove paper, slightly darker shade, with good margins all around, tied by violet “2” numeral of Belleville to envelope Brockville, with BELLEVILLE, NO 1 1858, U.C. circular datestamp alongside, arrival backstamp, part of the same correspondence as the previous lot.

A fine example showing numeral and town cancellations together, illustrating postal markings of Belleville.

Provenance: Highlands and Chan Ching Chueng (Harmers 1961).