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Auction: SW1006 - The Collector's Series, including important Chile and Portugal
Lot: 618

1859, Jan. 5. Cover from Ranquilí to Santiago, posted at the Peralillo P.O. and franked by Second London Printing 5c. featuring exceptional margins all around with portions of two adjacent adhesives, tied by concentric rings cancel, showing "PERALILLO." oval postmark, which introduced in the adhesive period, alongside. Charged with "20" red due marking on arrival in absence of 10c. This cover represents the only proof recorded of the existence of a postmark from this tiny village in the Vichuquén department, 50 km west of Curicó. Ex Blank and Menéndez.

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€1,200