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  • Lot# : 4133 Brasil

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    60 reis black, Early Impression with close to large margins all round with horizontal marginal line at top, applied as seal to reverse of March 1844 entire letter from Aiuruoca, Minas Geras to Rio de Janeiro, Tixeira correspondence, tied by superb strike of extremely rare straight line AIVRVOCA handstamp in brown (Ayres 1126). Minor ageing to letter sheet and trivial crease to the upper margin of the adhesive but of great scarcity. Manuscript docketing of receipt at left. Only two Bulls Eye covers are known with this cancellation.
    Provenance: Collection Koester, Corinphila sale 70 (March 1984), lot 4320, Norman S. Hubbard (May 1986), lot 2069.
    Starting bid : 2,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 9,000 CHF