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Bidboard #
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1929
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Lot #
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201
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Catalogue Value or Estimate:
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$120.00
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Current Bid:
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$65
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Canada Covers
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Postcards. Britannia Beach / Britannia Mines - British Columbia, a seldom seen group of 19 colour tinted RPPC’s (real photo postcards) showing the mine and surrounding area. An attractive group, several of which we have never seen before which were printed and published by C.F. Senner (Vancouver BC) with eight of the cards "printed exclusively for Britannia Stores of Britannia Mining & Smelting Co. Britannia Beach BC." The Britannia Mines, located 55km north of Vancouver on Howe Sound operated for 70 years, being one of the largest and most important Copper Ore producers in Canada during the 1920’s / 1930’s. Low copper prices and unionization of the workers led to the mine being operated by a skeleton crew by the late 1950’s, with the mine closing for good in 1974. Estimate =
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