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Canadian Countermarks - NO within cartouche

Currency:CAD Category:Coins & Paper Money / World Coins - Canada Start Price:75.00 CAD Estimated At:150.00 - 200.00 CAD
Canadian Countermarks -  NO within cartouche
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NO within cartouche - on obv. of Nfld. 50 cents. (Brunk O-13, M.I. 699). This diminutive mark represents that of Nils Ohman, a jeweller in St. John's, Nfld. By 1899 he was located in Montreal, where he expanded on a stamp (collector) business that he had established in St. John's. Located in the affluent area of Westmount This entrepreneurial man also offered coins from his premises on St. Catherine Street, corner of Wood Avenue, he advertised himself as watchmaker, jeweller, engraver, dealer in old coins, stamps, and curiosities. A few years later he moved to Greene Avenue where the store continued till 1983, but it had gone out of the family in 1959. Nils Ohman died in 1936 at almost 93 years of age.


Note this lot is part of the Richard Cooper Collection.