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Lot# 7575 - Auction 298-307

  • Lot# : 7575 Ecuador

    1866: 4 reales brown-red, two vertical strips of four in a bright shade, both from the left hand side of the sheet and thus the entire vertical coloumn, positions 1/14/27/40/53/6/79/82; formerly used together and cancelled by over-inked Latacunga (?) datestamps in black, both strips extremely fine and without the usual scissor cuts between, traces of bend on one from the original parcel and cancellation shows through the somewhat thin paper. Exceptional and very rare, a marvellous pair of multiples.rnProvenance: Collection E.M. de Bustamante, Afinsa, Madrid, May 1996, lot 93.
    Starting bid : 2,800 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold