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Lot# : 2162 Colombia
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1917: Lot seven complete Perkins Bacon Proof sheets of 100 values, each in the issued colours printed on ungummed wove paper, including 'Caldas' ½ c. bistre, 'Torres' 1 c. green, 'Narino' 2 c. carmine, 'Bolivar' 5 c.dull blue, 'Cordoba' 10 c. grey, 'Boyaca Monument' 20 c. red and 'Sucre' 1 p. sky-blue, of which ½ c. and 5 c. printed on watermarked "Special Paper London EC", 2 c., 10 c. and 20 c. with violet Administration handstamp. Despite some minor imperfections a very scarce offer.Starting bid : 500 CHFHammer price : 500 CHFLot# : 2163 Colombia
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1920: Arms 3 c. red in a complete Perkins Bacon Proof Sheet of 100 values with sheet margins allround, printed on ungummed yellow-orange paper, some paper wrinkles and light diag. fold at lower left of sheet, nevertheless fine and scarce Gibbons 380.Starting bid : 120 CHFHammer price : 120 CHFLot# : 2164 Colombia
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1923/29: Arms 1 ½ c. chocolate in a complete Perkins Bacon Proof Sheet of 100 values with wide sheet margins allround, printed on ungummed wove paper, showing double print of complete first vertical row at left, small ink spot between pos. 33/34, vertical and horizontal folds away from stamps, but nevertheless a fine and scarce multiple Gibbons 393.Starting bid : 200 CHFHammer price : 200 CHFLot# : 2165 Colombia
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1937 (4. Jan): Barranquilla Industrial Exhibition, Waterlow Imperforate Proofs on gummed wove paper, complete set of three with 5 c. maroon, 15 c. light blue and 50 c. red-brown, each in marginal blocks of six, in addition 5 c. and 15 c. vertical pairs of left or right corner sheet. All fresh and fine SG 493/95.Starting bid : 180 CHFHammer price : 240 CHFLot# : 2166 Colombia
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1938 (July 27): IV Centenario Bogota, Waterlow Imperforate Proofs on gummed wove paper, complete set of seven values to 1 $, together with part set to 20 c. in blocks of four (some are sheet marginal). Scarce and most attractive group.Starting bid : 300 CHFHammer price : 360 CHFLot# : 2167 Colombia
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1949 (Dec. 15): Commemorative issue 50th Death Anniversary of Francisco Javier Cisneros (1836-1898), Waterlow Imperforate Proofs on gummed wove paper, complete set of three of 50 c. each in the issued colours and in matching horizontal blocks of right of sheet. Fresh and fine SG 717/719.Starting bid : 120 CHFHammer price : 260 CHFLot# : 2168 Colombia
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1887: Registered envelope from Medellon to Munich, bearing Registration stamp 10 c. red on orange with handwritten '2798' with Colombia 1883, 10 c. orange in a hor. pair, cancelled by oval 'MEDELLIN' handstamp in violet, Barranquilla registration handstamp, Colon cds and 'London Registered' cds in red in transit, reverse with Munich arrival cds's (June 12, 1887). A fresh and fine cover.Starting bid : 150 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 2169 Colombia
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1917; Registration 10 c. deep blue (Tequendama Falls) large part of Perkins Bacon Proof sheet of 47 values on unwatermarked wove paper without gum of former sheeet of 50 with sheet margins allround, large brown spot on top of sheet margin and slight paper wrinkles, otherwise fine and scarce Gibbons R370.Starting bid : 200 CHFHammer price : 340 CHFLot# : 2170 Colombia
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1917: Acknowledgment of Receipt Sabana Station 4 c. bistre-brown large part of of Perkins Bacon Proof sheet of 79 values on unwatermarked wove paper without gum of top of sheet, bearing receiving Colombian Administration handstamp in violet. Scarce Gibbons AR116.Starting bid : 200 CHFHammer price : 200 CHFLot# : 2171 Colombia
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1865/72: Entire letters (6) to France or USA with British P.O. datestamps on reverse of CARTHAGENA, SANTA MARTHA, PANAMA and one with GUAYAQUIL cds., four struck with Accountancy marking 'GB / 1F 60c.' in black, the Guayaquil cover with 'GB / 2F 87½c.' in black in London; interesting variety of décime rates handstruck on arrival: 8, 10, 12, 16 and 24.Starting bid : 150 CHFHammer price : 240 CHFLot# : 2172 Colombia
1 / 7Correo Semanal del Dorado 1868/70: Collection on five sheets, well written up, incl. two covers, five blocks of four, a pair and two singles. The two covers of July and November 1870 were sent from the Laguna de Siecha in the Guasca district, both directed from Geo Crowther to Enrique Urdaneta in Bogota and each bearing a single private post adhesive of 1 real, tied by handwritten 'G', standing probably for Guasca. The blocks of four, three of them in tête-bêche configuration, and the other adhesives show the diversity of papers used for printing with thin bluish, white vertically laid and ordinary thick papers, as any available piece of paper was used. A rarely seen offer of this elusive issue including several items described in Bortfeld, Private Mail Carriers of Colombia on pages 59-68. There are only about ten covers known from this private mail carrier.rnNote: It was believed that in the Siecha Lake (in the Guasca municipality of the Cundinamarca Department), a difficult to access lagoon at an altitude of more than 3,000 metres, the Muisca people had hidden from the Spaniards the legendary El Dorado treasure. A Colombian citizen, Enrique Urdaneta partnered with the English engineer George Crowther and acquired in 1866 the shares that enabled them to drain the lake. As communication was difficult due to geographical reasons, a private carrier service was established in 1868. This first Colombian private carrier provided a weekly mail service of El Dorado, which transported mail from the Siecha lagoon to Bogota, which lasted to 1870. Adhesives were created, a cliché was cut, the value of postage stamps was set to 1 real (10 centavos de peso) and printed on various available papers. There are only about ten covers known. The November cover being part of this lot is thought to be the last one sent. Two days later Crowther and twelve coworkers died in a tunnel which brought the whole project to an end.Starting bid : 7,000 CHFHammer price : 11,500 CHF -
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