Lot# 5040 - 186-190 Auction

½ peso rose red, ERROR OF COLOUR, the famous vertical pair with ½ peso at top (Transfer Type B with coloured dot under 'Correos' outside lower frame line) in pair with 1 peseta, Type 1, from two seperate 'bloc report' Transfers. The pair with huge margins on all sides cancelled by 'Admon. Pral De Correos / Tacna' circular datestamp (18 June 1858) in black. Upper stamp with minor thin but a remarkable and extremely rare pair: the Percy Bargholtz census, this being fig. Cb2, records just five pairs, two of which are in the Tapling collection in the British Museum, the other two being sold by Corinphila in the Klaus Eitner collection in 2009. An extraordinary and rare multiple which has graced many of the most famous collections. Signed Holcombe. Cert. Moorhouse (2013).

Provenance: Baron Ferrari de la Renotière, 8th sale, (5 Nov 1923), lot 302.
                        M. G. Vigil (1932).
                        J. Schatzkes.                        
                       Gonzales Garcia (Nov 1985), lot 12621.
                        N. Hubbard (June 2008), lot 259.