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  • Lot# : 3005 Colombia

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    Cartagena-Magdalena River-Santa Fé de Bogotá Route 1800c.: Cover from Nare to Honda, distance 34 leagues / 189 kms., with good strike of the extremely rare NARE handstamp (Tizon 1 = EXT) and, below, DEBE (Tizon 2 = EXT) both in red. Scarce cover dated to 1800 by Santa Maria, with reverse showing weight notation "2½" (ounces) and thus a charge of 7½ reales would have been levied on receipt.
    Provenance: Collection Juan Santa Maria (S & L, Oct 1992), lot 71.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 240 CHF