Four United States stamps — a 1¢ blue Franklin (Scott #9) and three 3¢ dull red Washingtons (Scott #11), ten cents in all — franked a folded cover mailed July 26, 1852, from New York to Messrs. W. J. Coleman & Co., Halifax, Nova Scotia. Two NEW YORK JUL 26 circular datestamps tie the stamps, a manuscript “per Steamer” at left marks it as travelling by steam packet, and a black “5” alongside a second “5” in blue pencil are best read as the accounting split of the 1851 US–Briti

Nova Scotia #9 (2¢ dull violet, Queen Victoria), tied by a barred oval cancellation, on a cover mailed from Kentville, Nova Scotia, March 28, 1867, to Miss Fanny Foster, Woodville, Cornwallis, in care of B. Kinsman. Backstamped Kentville, N.S. (MR 28 1867) and Aylesford, N.S., the same day — this was strictly local mail, Kentville and Woodville both sitting within Kings County. Cornwallis Township, where Woodville lay, was simply an older subdivision of the same county. A far