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Auction: SW1006 - The Collector's Series, including important Chile and Portugal
Lot: 549

1854, 5c. burnt sienna, strip of four showing complete sheet margin at left, cut slightly into in one position at base, touched in places at top, tied by seven-bars cancels on 28 May 1855 cover to Valparaiso, with Santiago c.d.s. on dispatch adjacent. The franking paid the up to 1 oz (28.8 grams) overland rate. Of the exceedingly few covers recorded with a strip of four of this rare stamp, this is undoubtedly the most spectacular and valuable. Cert. Moorhouse. SFC 4.

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