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Lot# 1409 - Auction 222-226

  • Lot# : 1409 Russian Levant

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    Catalogue# : 3/II
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    1866: ROPiT definitive (10 pa.) rose & blue without hatching of the ROPiT tablet in a block of four, fresh colour and good to large margins all round, cancelled by illisible datestamp. Horiz. fold through the lower pair, vert. fold through the right pair, light thin at top, still an appealing and rare unit of this stamp. Signed Schlesinger Mi = € 400+.rnProvenance: Collection Agathon Fabergé; Harmer's Auction (January 1940).rnNote: Bought in 1911 by Agathon Fabergé for his Russia Levant collection and presented in 1933 during the famous WIPA stamp show in Vienna in frame 2, sheet 11 of his Russian Levant exhibit, no. 244; see p. 325 in Hellman & Stone; Agathon Fabergé - Portrait of a philatelist.
    Starting bid : 100 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold