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Auction: SW1006 - The Collector's Series, including important Chile and Portugal
Lot: 636

1853. Undated cover from Valparaiso to Santiago, franked at double rate with First London Printing 5c., two examples, each cut into on one side with good margins in other respects, both tied by very fine strike of "VALPARAISO" straight-line handstamp. Ten covers are known with this postmark (of which six with the remarkable feature of tying the franking), which is the last straight-line type used in Valparaiso, and it seems to have been applied in association with adhesives in 1853 only (as proved by the dated items recorded; undated examples only bear the firts printing of 1853). SFC 48d2. Ex Menéndez.

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