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Auction: 11037 - Pearls of Arabia - Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia
Lot: 283

Tunisia Italian Post Office 1863-65 Issue 1874 (23 July) entire letter to Genoa bearing Turin printing 40c. rose with boxed "piroscafi/postali/italiani" (Sassone 8) cancellation and endorsed "Inservibile" in manuscript and with "Da Tunisi" alongside, on arrival taxed by 60c. Postage Due; light filing fold just affecting the Postage Due, fine and rare use of the 40c. after it became invalid. Colla Certificate (2007) Estimate € 800-1,000

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