Lot# 6348 - Auction 257-264

Pacific Steam Navigation Co 1857: 1 r. blue, a used horizontal pair, just touched at left and just clear at right and with large margins at top and at base, of excellent rich colour, cancelled by dotted CALLAO handstamp in black. Right hand stamp with diagonal crease not affecting the dramatic appearance of an exceptionally rare multiple with just two used multiples of this stamp recorded by this describer (the other is ex Caspary), this being the sole horizontal pair and the sole example with this cancellation. Cert. APS (1990) Gi 1 = £ 4'500/Scott = $ 4'500.rnProvenance: Allegedly (H. Moll) ex collection Baron Philippe Ferrary de Renotière; Collection Louise Boyd Dale & Alfred F. Lichtenstein, H.R.Harmer, New York, 6 May 1970, lot 932; Corinphila sale 72, Sept 1985, lot 1430; Collection Herbert H. Moll.