hdm1950
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Posts: 1,608 
What I collect: I collect world wide up to 1965 with several specialty albums added due to volume of material I have acquired. At this point I am focused on Canada and British America. I am always on the lookout for stamps and covers with postmarks from communities in Queens County, Nova Scotia. I do list various goods including stamps occasionally on eBay as hdm50
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Post by hdm1950 on Apr 24, 2021 23:33:06 GMT
This cover is one of my favorite items in my collection. The condition is not great but i like that it has both a 3 pence and 6 pence stamp. It was mailed from Yarmouth, NS to my home town of Liverpool, NS on September 23, 1857. John S. Marshall was a local lawyer and lucky for collectors it appears he kept most of his envelopes from correspondence. It is surprising how often they pop up for sale. I have 2 others addressed to him after confederation with Canada 1/2 cent black small queen catalogue #34.   |
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hdm1950
Member
Posts: 1,608
What I collect: I collect world wide up to 1965 with several specialty albums added due to volume of material I have acquired. At this point I am focused on Canada and British America. I am always on the lookout for stamps and covers with postmarks from communities in Queens County, Nova Scotia. I do list various goods including stamps occasionally on eBay as hdm50
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Post by hdm1950 on Apr 29, 2021 17:40:46 GMT
This is the second of the 2 Nova Scotia covers I have with stamps from the pence 1851-57 era. This one I bought because of the postmark from Liverpool, NS, my home town, on the back. I bought it at auction in 1999 and I remember at the time it was the most I had ever paid for a single item. Early Nova Scotia covers appear often in auctions but finding them connected to my home county is a challenge.   |
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hdm1950
Member
Posts: 1,608
What I collect: I collect world wide up to 1965 with several specialty albums added due to volume of material I have acquired. At this point I am focused on Canada and British America. I am always on the lookout for stamps and covers with postmarks from communities in Queens County, Nova Scotia. I do list various goods including stamps occasionally on eBay as hdm50
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Post by hdm1950 on Aug 16, 2023 18:47:40 GMT
This cover is a great addition to my Queens County, Nova Scotia postal history and cancels. This 1858 folded letter is addressed to Edward Davison of Mill Village who was sometimes referred to at the time as the the Lumber King of Nova Scotia. He was also an elected Liberal member of the pre-confederation Nova Scotia parliament. He lost in 1859 which was the same election that Andrew Cowie of Liverpool was elected as the member for the county (prior to that he was the member for the township of Liverpool.). I could not find the election results for 1859 to see if they ran against each other. Edward Davison was against confederation. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/davison_edward_doran_12E.htmlThe stamp appears to be a Unitrade 2 3d  The post mark is blurry but dates to April 12, 1858 from Halifax Nova Scotia  Edward Davison was a member of the Nova Scotia provincial government at the time and this portion of a folded letter was from Hugh McDonald who represented Antigonish at the time en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_McDonald_(politician). I was successful in making out most of the content. It is too bad that any additional pages of the letter did not survive. It is rather amusing: ‘ damsel appears quite tickled with his attention. He was here today for an hour or two and of course none of us interrupted their confab. I felt so lonesome after you left that I persuaded Richard ? to heft his quarters and come down stairs with me. We live quite a moral life now. No black bottles or card playing in our room. I hope you enjoyed your first ? on of the season. Yours sincerely H McDonald  I was able to visit the Davison family plot in Mill Village, Queens County, Nova Scotia while I was home in July of this year. The theme of the tombstone is quite fitting for his business interests. There are family members still in the area and there is a book about Edward that my brother owns a copy of that I hope to borrow.  The back of the tombstone.  |
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REL1948
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What I collect: 1840-Pre-Decimal, GB and Colonies, 1840 1 penny reds, Postal Histories
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Post by REL1948 on Aug 16, 2023 19:08:48 GMT
This cover is a great addition to my Queens County, Nova Scotia postal history and cancels. This 1858 folded letter is addressed to Edward Davison of Mill Village who was sometimes referred to at the time as the the Lumber King of Nova Scotia. He was also an elected Liberal member of the pre-confederation Nova Scotia parliament. He lost in 1859 which was the same election that Andrew Cowie of Liverpool was elected as the member for the county (prior to that he was the member for the township of Liverpool.). I could not find the election results for 1859 to see if they ran against each other. Edward Davison was against confederation. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/davison_edward_doran_12E.htmlThe stamp appears to be a Unitrade 2 3d
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hdm1950
Member
Posts: 1,608
What I collect: I collect world wide up to 1965 with several specialty albums added due to volume of material I have acquired. At this point I am focused on Canada and British America. I am always on the lookout for stamps and covers with postmarks from communities in Queens County, Nova Scotia. I do list various goods including stamps occasionally on eBay as hdm50
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Post by hdm1950 on Aug 16, 2023 19:46:16 GMT
This cover is a great addition to my Queens County, Nova Scotia postal history and cancels. This 1858 folded letter is addressed to Edward Davison of Mill Village who was sometimes referred to at the time as the the Lumber King of Nova Scotia. He was also an elected Liberal member of the pre-confederation Nova Scotia parliament. He lost in 1859 which was the same election that Andrew Cowie of Liverpool was elected as the member for the county (prior to that he was the member for the township of Liverpool.). I could not find the election results for 1859 to see if they ran against each other. Edward Davison was against confederation. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/davison_edward_doran_12E.htmlThe stamp appears to be a Unitrade 2 3d
RobThanks Rob ( REL1948) but in fairness the auction house had done a lot of the work. From where they left off I just had to Google. One of my sister's had found an image of the tombstone on an ancestry site which made it rather easy to find once I knew which cemetery. My brother lives just a mile away from there and told me to go to the highest part of the cemetery and I would find it. I was impressed how well the property has been maintained compared to to some cemeteries I have seen. |
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