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Auction: 164 - The "Inclinados" Issues of Brazil including "Bull's Eye" Paper
Lot: 21

1844 90r black, type I, fine impression, horizontal pair, slightly cut into at right, very large margins on the other three sides showing portions of two neighboring stamps, applied on double weight cover, lacking bottom back flap, from Rio de Janeiro carried via maritime mail to Porto Alegre, tied by August 1845 ''Correio Geral Da Corte'' datestamp, some glue marks around the stamps, of no importance, believed to be a unique franking on "Bull's Eye" paper, this being the scarcest and most desirable paper type of this issue, with only about ten covers recorded bearing two examples of this denomination regardless of the paper type; 2010 Moorhouse certificate; RHM 7B;

Estimate
$25,000 to $30,000