Lot 37 Canada

1895: 10 c. Blue Issue 1895, 10 c. blue, postal history group of eight, illustrating a diversity of usages, including non-delivery carrier notices, one with adhesive double-crossed in pen denoting attempted delivery, another with notice of attempt to delivery affixed to front, varieties on cover including the "dots in curved arc above messenger" and "line through colour through POSTAL DELIVERY", the latter on florist advertising cover, two examples of local service, including one uncommon usage on a particularly fresh postal card, three 1900/02 examples to or from Cleveland displaying attempts to reduce carrier fraud, with strikes of "NOTICE / No Charges / On This Mail" or "PAY NO MONEY TO MESSENGER", and two examples of foreign origin, including use on 1901 stationery card fom Canada, and one on piece cancelled in Pago Pago Samoa, one of only two recorded examples, the odd small fault, but a mostly very fine group of unusual and desirable covers