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Auction: SW1006 - The Collector's Series, including important Chile and Portugal
Lot: 659

1859, 10c. orange-chesnut, stone A, with part sheet-margin at left and excellent margins on other sides, featuring a partial impression with large part of the design and “Confed. Grana...” missing at left, probably due to an uneven inking of the plate or a less probably worn out cliché, cleanly tied by blue “La Mesa/Franca” pre-adhesive oval handstamp, on entire letter addressed to the General Postmaster at Bogotá by Postmaster in La Mesa. The franking covered the double weight letter rate for a route not exceeding 150 km. Fewer than five examples off cover are believed to exist, with this item representing the only usage known on cover of this spectacular partial impression, of even more significance as the only first issue cover recorded with a prominent variety. Cert. Bortfeldt. Scott 4.

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€8,000