Lot# 4153 - 177-180 Auction

90 reis black, Early Impression on yellowish paper from First Composite plate, State C, position 13, a fine used example in a vivid deep shade showing the marginal lines at base; cancelled by bold oval framed RO. GRDE. NTE. handstamp in red-brown (Ayres 1434). Merest trace of hinge thin but a marvellous stamp. Signed Calves; cert. Philatelic Foundation (1998), Moorhouse (2013). Provenance: Collection Saul Newbury (1967); Norman S. Hubbard (May 1986), lot 2097.