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Bidboard #
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1925
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Lot #
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220
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Catalogue Value or Estimate:
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$400.00
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Current Bid:
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$130
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Canadian Provinces - Newfoundland
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#C3h on Cover. VF example of the 1921 Halifax Airmail overprint, showing the 1.5 mm spacing between AIR and MAIL variety as the period after 1921 variety. Tied by a St. John's NFLD machine cancel to a neat General Post Office cover addressed to Philadelphia. Only 2,224 of this setting were printed, with only a small portion of these still on cover. Of particular note is the recipient of this cover, philatelist Joseph A. Steinmetz. As well as being the president of the Aero Club, he owned two different "Inverted Jennys". He was also the high profile collector embroiled in a 1911 court case where he was indicted for bribing a post office employee in return for sheets of rare US stamps that had been slated for official destruction. A stamp story worth investigating! 2022 Unitrade catalogue price for on cover =
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