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Auction: 6010 - Important Stamps & Covers of the World - Washington Philatelic Exhibition Auction
Lot: 92

Denmark 1855 (8 May) entire letter from Copenhagen to Konigsberg, East Prussia bearing 1852 Thiele printing, plate 2, type 8, 2 Rbs blue [32] (cut-into at left), together with 1854 plate 1, 4 sk. red-brown strip of five [51-55] (two touched or cut-into at foot), all neatly cancelled "1" and showing clear despatch c.d.s. at lower left with, on reverse, Wismar and Rostock transit d.s. A very rare and most attractive franking. Lasse Nielsen Certificate (1999). Estimate US$ 20,000-25,000provenance: Dr. Gene Scott, 2000

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$14,000