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  • Lot# : 4139 Romania

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    1858 (July 21): Bull's Head 108 parale blue on rose horizontally laid paper, a used example with mammoth margins on three sides and ample at left, used on the famous registered 1858 cover from Tekutsch tied by TEKUTSCH / MOLDOVA datestamp in blue (Kiriac fig. 283, first month of use of this datestamp), with italic RECEPISSE in blue at left and docket number '217' in manuscript. One flap missing and file folds at sides and one through top margin only of the adhesive and not affecting the dramatic appearance of this outstanding cover. Illustrated in Heimbüchler Handbook I on page 413. The sole recorded cover bearing this value used from Tekutsch, and one of just recorded examples from this town. Signed internally by Jacques Rosenbaum, Bucharest, J. Schlesinger; E. Diena, A. Diena; certs. A. Diena (1965), Heimbüchler (2018). Mi = € 38'000.rnrnProvenance: Köhler sale, May 1930.rn                        Collection John Lek, Harmers, London, June 1959.rn                        Spink, London, June 2, 1999, lot 269.
    Starting bid : 25,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 25,000 CHF