BC Cover British Columbia CBN printing

CBN printing

engraved by Charles Henry Jeens (Perkins Bacon Company) with engine-turned surrounding oval

shows tiny "cross" guidelines at sides of design

1949-1950 Two cent brown KGVI War Effort “O

a beautiful example of the seldom seen bisected usage of the 6p yellow green to pay the single domestic letter rate

BC Cover British Columbia CBN printingIncoming Mail from two different routes from the United Kingdom to Victoria,Vancouver Island: 1) 1859 (July 4) prepaid envelope with minor edge flaws rated 1 2 from Plympton via London, New York, Panama and San Francisco with neat dispatch, transit and clear large San Francisco Paid AUG 14 1859 datestamp in red; forwarded to Victoria with manuscript docketing recd 23 Aug 59 on reverse; and 2) 1863 (March 13) blue envelope in excellent shape sent