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Lot# 3087 - 191-195 Auction

  • Lot# : 3087 Peru

    1 dinero blue, the first retouch with cornucopia on white ground, the extraordinary used block of 12 used on linen parcel piece, with good to very large margins for this stamp, the twelfth stamp with contemporary diagonal fault, all cancelled by straight line OTUSCO handstamps in red. An exceptional and extremely rare block from this setting - the largest known multiple.

    Provenance: Joseph Schatzkes.
                            'Crown Point' Corinphila sale 131 (Oct 2001) lot 6885.
                            Corinphila sale 151 (Dec 2007) lot 3765.
    Starting bid : 4,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 4,000 CHF