Auction 333-341 Australian States & Commonwealth of Australia and New Zealand – The ‚KOOYONG‘ Collection - Day 2

Stampless Postal History, 1840/54, Steamboat mail, thirteen covers, mounted on annotated pages, three from Quebec to Montreal with superior-quality strikes of oval "Steam Boat Letter / Q", six struck with "Steam Boat Letter Quebec" despatch marks, one a cross-border usage to New York,one each with "Stream Boat Letter Montreal" and "Steam Boat Letter Toronto", 1840 cover to Toronto with scarce STEAM BOAT arc handstamp, and 1849 cross-border cover from Toronto to Cambridge, Massachusetts, without ship handstamp but carried via Lake Ontario steamboat, typical mixed condition, mostly fine strikes, and rarely offered as such a group.