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Lot# 4075 - Auction 265-273

  • Lot# : 4075 Dominican Republic

    1877 (Jan 4): Great Britain 1864/79 1 d. red pl. 146, a horizontal strip of four used on 1877 entire letter from Santiago and struck with FRANCO handstamp in black (internal rate of 1 real), forwarded by "GUEBRA HERMANOS / PUERTO PLATA" with blue oval cachet, tied by two fine strikes of the "C86" obliterator in black. "PORTO-PLATA / PAID" datestamp in red below (Jan 9) and reverse with 'St. Thomas' arrival cds (Jan 15) in black. A rare and very fine entire. The pendant cover with the same 4x1d. franking from the same correspondance but used the days earlier on 6 January 1877 was in the Dale-Lichtenstein collection (1969). Cert. Todd AIEP (2020).
    Starting bid : 1,000.00 CHF
    Hammer price : 4,800.00 CHF