Colombia
Catalogue 222: EUROPE & OVERSEAS
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Lot# : 1544 Colombia
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Cartagena-Magdalena River-Santa Fé de Bogotá Route 1788 (March 26): Entire letter from Cartagena to Quito via Popayan, distance of 463 leagues, 2'580 km., struck with fine contracted CARTAGN handstamp in red with upright lettering (Tizon 2 = RR) and straight line FRANCA also in red below (Tizon 5 = RR) at left. Manuscript rated "5" reales in ink for a letter weighing up to ¾ ounce. Docket number 177 on reverse of a fine and rare entire.rnrnProvenance: Collection Dr. Hugo Goeggel, Corinphila sale 188, May 2014, lot 4005.Starting bid : 500 CHFHammer price : 500 CHFLot# : 1545 Colombia
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1792 (Jan 24): Prepaid entire letter from San Gil to Socorro with straight line S. GIL (Tizon 1 = EXT) and FRANCA (Tizon unrecorded), slightly shortened at the top, but still very attractive and an extremly rare usage.rnrnProvenance: Collection Dr. Hugo Goeggel, Corinphila sale 191, Nov 2014, lot 7.Starting bid : 350 CHFHammer price : 440 CHFLot# : 1546 Colombia
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1810 (April 20): Cover and part back prepaid from Zapotoca to San Gil with superb strike of ZAPOTOCA / FRANCA handstamp in red (Tizon unrecorded). Fresh, fine and extremely rare.rnrnProvenance: Collection Dr. Hugo Goeggel, Corinphila sale 191, Nov 2014, lot 18.Starting bid : 250 CHFHammer price : 320 CHFLot# : 1547 Colombia
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1810 (April 22): Entire letter from Leiva to San Gil with fine framed LEIVA / FRANCA handstamp struck in black (Tizon unrecorded), some minor worm-holes at right but attractive and very rare.rnrnProvenance: Collection Dr. Hugo Goeggel, Corinphila sale 191, Nov 2014, lot 19.Starting bid : 150 CHFHammer price : 300 CHFLot# : 1548 Colombia
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Santa Fé de Bogotá-Cartago-Quibdó Route 1812 (Oct 2): Prepaid entire letter written from Quibdó and mailed from Bebará to Camilo Torres in Santa Fé de Bogotá, distance of 180 leagues / 1'000 kms., with BEBARA and FRANCA handstamps (note inverted "N") each well struck in black (Tizon 2 and 4 = RRR). Rated "4" reales in manuscript for a single letter up to ½ ounce. Extremely rare, Bebará is 160 kms. north of Quibdó and can only be reached by boat on the Atrato and Bebará rivers. A famous cover, there are believed to be just three covers recorded from Bebará, all were in the Goeggel collection.rnrnProvenance: Collection Gordon Anstee, Robson Lowe, April 1981, lot 1024; Collection Dr. Hugo Goeggel, Corinphila sale 183, Sept 2013, lot 3033.Starting bid : 400 CHFHammer price : 550 CHFLot# : 1549 Colombia
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1841: Cover from Bogotá to Hertford, England struck witth superb CARTHAGENA fleuron handstamp in red (applied in transit in Kingston) and reverse showing 'Kingston / Jamaica' cds in black (Jan 21) alongside London cds of transit in red (March 3) where rated 2/3d. to pay in manuscript. One side flap missing but a remarkably fine strike of a rare marking - the Royal Mail Steam Packet service only started to call at Cartagena in 1841.Starting bid : 500 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 1550 Colombia
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1857 (Feb 6): Printed entire letter from the Foreign Secretary of Nueva Granada mailed from Bogotá to the Nueva Granada Consul to Denmark in Copenhagen, with reverse showing British P.O. CARTHAGENA double arc datestamp in black (Feb 25), London cds of transit (April 1) in red where charged 1/4 d. to pay. Thence via Danish P.O. in Hamburg with datestamp (April 3) in black and with a variety of manuscript rates including the eventual charge of 23 skilling due upon receipt. A remarkable and appealing entire to a most unusual destination.Starting bid : 200 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 1551 Colombia
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1859/66: Covers (2) with 1859 entire letter to New York showing superb oval "From / T. R. Cowan / Shipping & Commission Agent / Colon, New Granada" cachet in red on frontand carried outside the mails; also an 1866 cover to Paris struck with octahonal French Paquebot ASPINWALL / PAQ. FR. A. No. 1 in black (Salles fig. 1416) and carried on the Steamer 'Nouveau Monde'. A fine pair.Starting bid : 100 CHFHammer price : 100 CHFLot# : 1552 Colombia
1 / 21863: 50 c. red, Error of Colour: Transfer inserted in error in Stone of the 20 c., a fine used example with good margins all round, cancelled by oval BOGOTÁ handstamp in black. Exceptional and rare. Signed Calves. Cert. Brun (2010) Yvert 22a = € 10'000/Scott = $ 5'500.1 / 1Starting bid : 6,000 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 1553 Colombia
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1863/64: 5 c. yellow, the magnificent irregular 'block' of three, the upper stamp positioned sideways, large margins all round upper stamp and close at base with left stamp corner crease but of exquisite fresh colour, superb large part original gum. An outstanding multiple with just four similar multiples recorded. Cert. Bortfeldt (2008).rnrnNote: It is probable but as yet unclear, that the entire top horizontal row of the sheet of 71 or 72 stamps (8 x 9) was printed sideways. This block comes from the upper right of sheet with the lower pair being positions R2: 6-7 in the horizontal row of eight.1 / 1Starting bid : 7,500 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 1554 Colombia
2 c. black on yellow / buff UPU postal stationery cards, the used range of nine cards with range of routings incl. three via French Paquebots in 1888 (to Stanley Gibbons in London), another in 1892 to Germany and 1901 usage to UK, 1892 usage from Neiva to Buenos Aires via Barbados etc.Starting bid : 80 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 1556 Colombia
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1892/1945: Range of covers (14) with 1892 registered cover to Zurich, thereafter with Scadta covers incl. one with 1 peso black and 20 c. grey used with Colombia 2x4 c. blue from Barranquilla to Bogotá etc.Starting bid : 120 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 1561 Colombia
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1920 (March 4): Return Flight to Cartagena, Banfi cover franked by 2 c. carmine and provisional 1 c. on 20 c. black pair and single 3 c. on 10 c. violet tied by oval 'Correos Aereos / Barranquilla' datestamps in violet (March 4, 1920) used with SCADTA Multicolores 10 c. 'Fuselage & Tail of Biplane' with large margins and well tied by CCNA cachet in violet but with slight peripheral staing from glue. Backstamped on arrival in blue (March 4). Vertical crease in cover but rare. Signed Holcombe.Starting bid : 1,200 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 1564 Colombia
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1920: "Ocean Liner" Multicoloured, the delightful hand-drawn and painted Essay, ink and watercolour design (61 x 39 mm.) on card (181 x 157 mm.), initially used for a Curtis publicity label that was, in turn, surcharged for Airmail usage by Compania Colombiana de Navegacion Aerea. Reverse with pencil notation "Artist Sketch - San. #10" on reverse. This extraordinary item was discovered in the estate of the late Alex Rendon in 2009. Unique. Cert. Moorhouse (2016).rnrnrn1 / 1Starting bid : 5,000 CHFHammer price : 5,000 CHFLot# : 1569 Colombia
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SCADTA 1924 (Jan 1): Surcharged "S" for Switzerland (10 mm. surcharge, lithographed in Berlin) in black, a fine unused set of 12 including the Registration 20 c. grey, fresh and fine, large part og. Scott = $ 175+.Starting bid : 75 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 1573 Colombia
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Bolivar 1866: Cover and cover front, each used with diagonally bisected 1866 10 c. red, the front endorsed 'Con Impresos' and tied by manuscript "Sincelejos" and used to Cartagena, the cover dated December 1871 with the 10 c. bisect cancelled by "Soledad" manuscript in black, also used to Cartagena. Scarce and fine examples of the smallest first issue adhesive ever issued.Starting bid : 120 CHFHammer price : 220 CHF -
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