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  • Lot# : 102 Chile

    1865 (Aug 16): Cover with complete contents written from Valparaiso to San Francisco, prepaid ‘1s.’ in red crayon manuscript, with double arc Valparaiso cds of British P.O. on reverse (Aug 17) in black, carried via British Post Office in PANAMA with double arc datestamp in black (Sept 4). Trans-shipped there with oval framed STEAM / PANAMA in black and San Francisco arrival cds (Sept 25) and charged 10 c. for Ship fee. Slight trim to envelope at right but a scarce West Coast cover.rn 
    Starting bid : 450 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 103 Chile

    Desmadryl 5 c. pale red brown, the magnificent used horizontal strip of three with just touched to large margins on all sides, portions of adjoining stamps at right and at base, all tied to 1856 cover to Valparaiso by six barred target obliterators in black. Santiago despatch cds (March 31) in red below. A delightful and rare cover.
    Starting bid : 1,000 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 104 Chile

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    1854: Gillet 5 c. burnt sienna, a fine large margined example with portion of adjoining stamp at right, overlapping Gillet Lithographed 5 c. chesnut-brown in a horizontal pair, large margins for the issue with portion of adjoining stamp at right tied by target handstamp in black, on 1855 cover from Valparaiso to France with PANAMA / TRANSIT in red on front and reverse with British P.O. Valparaiso cds and London transit cds (Sept 18) in black. Charged due on receipt with handstruck '21' décime charge marking. A very rare mixture of the Gillet printings on a most attractive cover. Signed Calves. Cert. BPA (2019).
    Starting bid : 2,500 CHF
    Hammer price : 2,500 CHF

    Lot# : 105 Chile

    1854: Desmadryl 10 c. blue on slightly blued paper, a superb horizontal strip of three used on 1854 entire letter to Valparaiso all cancelled by black target oblietators with Santiago despatch cds (Dec 23) in red alongside. A delightful and rare entire.rnProvenance: Corinphila, sale 90, October 1994, lot 6361.
    Starting bid : 1,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,000 CHF

    Lot# : 106 Chile

    Estanco 10 c. blue, diagonally bisected example on 1857 entire letter to Valparaiso, showing part marginal inscription at left, just tied by target obliterator in black with Santiago datestamp (July 27) in black below. A fresh and fine entire.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 107 Chile

    Estanco 10 c. deep blue, a diagonally bisected example on cover to Santiago tied by target obliterator in black, with straight line OVALLE despatch below. A fresh and fine cover.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 400 CHF

    Lot# : 108 Chile

    Estanco 10 c. blue, a vertical pair on 1858 entire letter endorsed 'por Vapor' to Valparaiso, lower stamp diagonally bisected and tied by target obliterator in black, with 'Copiapo' cds of despatch (Feb 20) below. File fold away from adhesives, a fine entire.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 109 Chile

    1911: 30 c. bistre brown & black, tied to 1912 cover to France by Santiago cds, the cover readdressed to Hodeida, Yemen with registration label tied by bold bilingual HODEIDA / 6 datestamp in black of receipt (Dec 5). Reverse with Marseille cds, Alexandria cds (Nov 28) and Port Said cds. Minor imperfections commensurate with the journey to an extraordinary destination.
    Starting bid : 120 CHF
    Hammer price : 120 CHF

    Lot# : 110 Chile

    British Post Office in Valparaiso 1874: Cover to St. Pauli, Hamburg franked by Great Britain 1858/69 2 d. blue pl. 14, 1873 6 d. grey pl 12 and 1873 1 s. green pl. 8 all tied by ‘Valparaiso / Paid / C30’ duplexes (March 4) in black and by ‘London / Paid’ transit cds in red (April 13). Carried on the PSNC Steamer ‘Potosi’ via the Magellan Straits with hooded Hamburg arrival cds (April 15) in black. A fine and unusual three colour franking.rn 
    Starting bid : 450 CHF
    Hammer price : 550 CHF

    Lot# : 111 Chile

    1853/2005: Lot some thousand mainly used stamps incl. some better values Columbus from the early years, mostly with duplicats or in larger quantities, incl. single values, pairs, strips, airmails, few modern suvenir sheets, Telegraph stamps, odfficials ets., good to mixed condition and housed in one album and in three stockbooks.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : 300 CHF

    Lot# : 112 Chile

    1866/67: The collection of the issue with letter from the Secretary's office of the American Bank Note Co. indicating the preparation of the plates for the issue, including notification of the colour for each value and indicating where 'Chile' and 'Colon' legends were to be placed; a rare imperforate Essay on rice-paper printed in deep brown (similar to the issued stamp but with larger figures of value), unadopted Essay in pale blue without value tablets printed on thick card paper (both these ex Joaquin Galvez and Angel Menendez collections), issued stamps unused with 1 c. orange unused (30+), 1 c. used (25+), 2 c. black unused (12, incl. a block of four) and used (24); 5 c. red unused (26, incl. a block of four) and used (110+); 10 c. blue unused (32, incl. two blocks of four and a block of six) and used (75+); 20 c. green unused (15) and used (56) with a range of covers/cards (12) incl. an 1897 card with two 1 c. orange, cover with 1 c. (10 examples) from Concepcion, 5 c. single franking covers (4) from Coronel, Curacavi (unique) and Petorca in violet and another with straight line 'Fuera de Balija', 5 c. block of four on cover from San Felipe, two covers with 5 c. multiple frankings paying a 30 c. rate, extraordinary 1869 cover with eleven 5 c. with rare 'New York / 68 / US Notes' depreciated currency marking, 5 c. (3) and a 10 c. used on USA 3 c. Wells Fargo envelope to San Francisco, a fine lot for further continuation into this fascinating issue.
    Starting bid : 5,000 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold
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