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Lot# 4245 - 177-180 Auction

  • Lot# : 4245 Ecuador

    4 reales brown-red on greenish paper, a deep shade and the paper evidently tinted, an exceptional marginal pair, positions 38-39 with vertical marginal frameline at right, used on 1868 entire letter to Chavez in Lima, Peru paying the quadruple rate and tied by "Guayaquil" datestamp (June 10) in black. Manuscript "2" reales to pay on arrival with Lima datestamp (June 19) on reverse of an exceptional entire. Rare and possibly unique.
    Provenance: Collection B.H. Homan Jnr. and Isleham.
    Starting bid : 5,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 6,000 CHF