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Lot# 1530 - Auction 234-243

  • Lot# : 1530 Romania

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    Catalogue# : 7ay+6by
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    1858: 80 pa. bright red on thin yellowish wove paper, a horizontal strip of three used on small piece in combination with 40 pa. greenish-blue in a horizontal pair, margins mostly clear of designs with the first 80 pa. just shaved at top, tied by three strikes of scarce framed FRANCO / FOLTICHENII handstamps in deep blue ink (Kiriac fig. 307). Exceptionally rare - a unique piece with multiples of both the 40 pa. and 80 pa.: 320 parale representing the largest franking recorded of the issue, and in superb quality for such an item. Illustrated in Heimbüchler handbook III on page 137. Cert. Heimbüchler (2019).
    Starting bid : 2,500 CHF
    Hammer price : 9,500 CHF