BC Cover Semi-Official Airmail 1917 Three cent brown

1917 Three cent brown

1911 One cent green

A very rare

the complete set of thirty-one imperforate blocks of four – one from each Waterlow printing plate employed

also untagged

BC Cover Semi-Official Airmail 1917 Three cent brownVancouver Island, undated (1860 circa.) Wells, Fargo & Co. printed frank in black on U. S. 3c red Washington embossed buff entire, employed as a paste up envelope without addressee, showing Victoria PAID V. I. unframed handstamp frank in blue (R. Lowe HS 3) to indicate 2p Colonial postage had been prepaid, superb strikes of the oval Wells, Fargo & Co DEC 7 Victoria cancels in blue (R. Lowe HS 34). Very attractive and seldom seen, Very Fine