New Brunswick SG 2 1855 cover from Edmunston to St John with 1851-60 3d red digital-edition showing wmk error 'St Edward's

showing wmk error 'St Edward's Crown' (W9b)

Maximum of 205 possible in this positional form

Carried from Pernambuco by Royal Mail steamer 'Minho' via St Vincent to Cherbourg

Wonderful intense colour

Very fine uncreased entire from London to Bordeaux prepaid by a 4d rose-carmine neatly tied by a crisp London E

New Brunswick SG 2 1855 cover from Edmunston to St John with 1851-60 3d red digital-edition showing wmk error 'St Edward's1855 (MR 1) cover from Edmunston to St John, franked by 1851 60 3d dull red (good to large margins), tied by mainly fine strike of '12' grid cancel, with Fredericton (MR 1) and St John (MR 2) backstamps. The envelope with light storage toning (mainly confined to reverse), still a fine and neat usage. Only six covers bearing the Edmunston grid cancel recorded by Smith & Verge in their 2024 census, this example being a new discovery. P267000553