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Canadian Countermark

Currency:CAD Category:Coins & Paper Money / World Coins - Canada Start Price:100.00 CAD Estimated At:200.00 - 250.00 CAD
Canadian Countermark
SOLD
240.00CAD+ buyer's premium (48.00)
This item SOLD at 2016 Jul 20 @ 22:32UTC-4 : AST/EDT


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Canadian Countermark - J. SINCLAIR. (curved) / 3 wavy lines / INGERSOLL. (curved) within oval on obv. of Canada Victoria 25¢, 1872 (M.I. 838, Brunk S-471).

This somewhat elaborate tinsmith mark of James Sinclair represents an individual apparently well known in the trade. He was born in 1845 in Scotland, according to the Federal census of 1881, and must have arrived early on in Canada, for he was already apprenticed to James & John Buchanan prior to 1862, as he is already listed in the County of Oxford gazetteer and directory for 1862-3, compiled and published by James Sutherland, Ingersoll, 1862. He is entered in the Union Publishing Co.’s Ingersoll directory 1894-95, ..., Ingersoll, n.d., and was still practicing the trade as late as 1895 in Ingersoll. He lived to a good age, dying in 1930 at about the age of 85. (Marked Impressions).

Note: this lot is part of The Richard Cooper Collection.