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Auction: 164 - The "Inclinados" Issues of Brazil including "Bull's Eye" Paper
Lot: 68

1845 90r black, types I and II, fine impression, vertical pair II / I graced by large margins all around, the upper adhesive showing two spectacular pre-printing paper folds, tied on arrival by "Correio Geral Da Corte" c.d.s. on reverse of folded cover carried by British packet, with corresponding endorsement on front, from Bahia -docket inside "Bahia 12 Dec 1845/Jezler & ca.", erroneously stating 1845 instead of 1844- to Rio de Janeiro, struck with British "Rio-Janeiro" double-arc datestamp on December 27 before entering the Brazilian mail system as, to this point, there was not involvement of the national post, an exhibition item demonstrating a very rare example of internal mail being forwarded through the British Post Office at Rio de Janeiro and involvement of British packet, probably the most significant of the just about ten covers recorded exhibiting two examples of this denomination, this being further enhanced by the rare usage and the very infrequent and visually impressive variety, a highly interesting piece for the advanced postal history collection; 2008 Moorhouse certificate; RHM 7+7A.

Estimate
$15,000 to $20,000