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  • Lot# : 4351 Colombia

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    5 c. lemon, a fine horizontal pair and a single in a paler 'matt' shade all used on large part 1861 cover, top flap missing, from Bogotá to Castellanos & Ca. in Ambalema, all cancelled by "BOGOTA" pearl handstamps in black. Fresh and very fine cover used during the four month period under 'Mosquera' rates. Cert. Moorhouse (2012).
    Note: On August 28, 1861 Tomas Cipriano de Mosquera altered the existing postal rates by memorandum. He ordered that the internal Colombian postal rates of April 1846 be re-introduced, namely 10 centavos for an inter-state letter and 15 centavos from one state to another. Only four letters are known sent during the four month period between August and December 1861, a new organisation being implemented on January 1, 1862.
    Provenance: Collection T. W. Hall; A. Caspary (June 1958), lot 871; Neuburger, Corinphila sale 69 (Oct 1982), lot 9058.
    Starting bid : 3,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 6,000 CHF