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  • Lot# : 5054 Peru

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    ½ peso orange-buff, a horizontal pair with just touched to large margins all round and slight crease in margin only, Transfer Types C-D, in a deep shade, used on 1858 entire letter from Tacna to Arequipa paying the quintuple rate. Neatly cancelled by circular ADMON DE CORREOS / TACNA datestamp (Oct 21) in black. Just three covers bearing pairs of this stamp are recorded. Cert. Moorhouse (2013).

    Provenance: Gonzales Garcia, Hubbard (June 2008), lot 282.
    Starting bid : 3,500 CHF
    Hammer price : 7,500 CHF