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lot # 2216 - British Commonwealth canada - transatlantic mails and 1851-1897 regular issues
Canada, 1892 Hand Illustrated & Colored Cover. Skillfully rendered pen & watercolored design by artist George Henry Edwards, depicting Quilted Address and Stamp Collar with allegorical animals, on unused cover addressed to England, franked with 2¢ Small Queen, initial and dated at bottom right, reverse with royal printed seal on backflap, Very Fine and choice, one of the very few illustrated covers that this artist created outside of his famous family correspondence.
Scott No. 36; Estimate $400 - 600.
George Henry Edwards (1854-1918) exhibited his art at the Royal Academy and the Royal Institute. This is one of approximately 45 covers believed to exist from this artist.
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