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Lot# 169 - Auction 298-307

  • Lot# : 169 Peru

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    1810c.: Cover front to Antonio Alvarez Jimenez, Brigadier del Ejército in Chiloe rated '4½' reales in manuscript with good strike of the very rare truncated two line INTERCEPTADA / DELIMA handstamp in red (Colareta fig. 1 = 100 pts./Tizon unrecorded). A rarity - this being acknowledged as probably the first Censor handstamp ever applied to mail in the Americas. Walter Bose in "Signos Postales del Rio de la Plata" states that this marking was used during between August and November 1810 in the revolutionary period on mail from Spain destined for Peru and other interior provinces that had been intercepted in Salta and returned to Buenos Aires. Cert. Moorhouse (2015).rnProvenance: Collection Dr. Hugo Goeggel, Corinphila sale 202, Nov 2015, lot 498.
    Starting bid : 350 CHF
    Hammer price : 950 CHF