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Lot# 7594 - Auction 309-320

  • Lot# : 7594 Denmark

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    1854: 4 sk. brown, 6th printing in a four-colour combination with 1855 2 sk. blue, 1857 16 sk. greyish-violet with dotted background, and pair 1858 8 sk. green with wavy lined background, five fine and fresh examples with overall good to large margins, the 4 sk. adhesive shaved at top, on entire letter to Lloret de Mar, Catalonia. The adhesives cancelled by five strikes of duplex "34 : KIOBENH.JERNSB:PST:CONT. 7 / 11 1859" datestamp, "P.P." in black, French "TOUR-T. VALENCIENNES 10 NOV. 59" entry cds in red and Spanish "4 Rs" taxation handstamp in black alongside as well as 'f 6½' (silbergroschen weiterfranko) in red crayon. On reverse transit cds's of the Danish and Thurn & Taxis P.O.'s in Hamburg, Spanish "ESPANA LA JUNQUERA" entry and GERONA transit cds's. The 38 skilling franking covers the 37 skilling rate in force to the French border between 1856 and March 1860, a beautiful item full of postal history interest, only two letters are recorded in this rare rate. Certs. Möller (2002), Nielsen (2003). rnProvenance: Collection Per Lorentzen.
    Starting bid : 3,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 3,000 CHF