Lot# 5005 - 186-190 Auction

1 r. blue on blued paper, good margins all round, close but clear at lower left, cancelled by LIMA / DIC 22 / 57 datestamp in black. The earliest known cancellation on this issue: unlisted by Herbert Moll and cancelled on the day prior to his first recorded example. Some peripheral ageing but an important and very scarce stamp. Signed Bühler; cert. Moorhouse (2006) Scott = $ 2'250.

Provenance: 'Stork', March 1975, lot 266.