Winter 2025 Sale

New York to Kentville, Nova Scotia, via Boston, Massachusetts, 16 July 1859. Partial wrapper of an entire posted unpaid in New York directed 'Pr Steamer from Boston for St. John'; charged ten cents, the cross-border rate at the time, it was marked with the exchange office charge of sixpence (Currency) and sent from St. John, New Brunswick to Kentville, via Windsor, Nova Scotia arriving there on 21 July 1859.
Letters from New York for Nova Scotia were sent by land to Boston for express steamship to St. John, then passed across the Bay of Fundy for Annapolis and on to destination. The New York exchange office used an oval '6d' handstamps for letters to the Maritime Provinces.

Estimate $300.00 - $500.00