BC Cover British Columbia Manitoba Flight

Manitoba Flight

shows tiny "cross" guidelines at sides of design

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

both with full margins and cancelled by oval mute grids for the Seven and One Half pence letter rate to the United Kingdom (effective August 1

BC Cover British Columbia Manitoba FlightIncoming 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