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  • Lot# : 1543 Sicily

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    1859 (Jan 1): ½ gr. yellow-brown, Plate I, a used example of bold colour, ample margins all round, crisply cancelled in black. A very rare stamp. Cert. Dr. Avi (2019) Sassone = € 24'000.
    Starting bid : 1,500 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1544 Sicily

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    1859: ½ gr. orange, Plate II, a used example of fresh colour, close to large margins all round, lightly cancelled in black. Rare. Signed E.Diena. Cert. Dr. Avi (2022) Sassone = € 7'000.
    Starting bid : 500 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1545 Sicily

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    1859: 1 gr. brownish olive-green 'bruno olivastro', Plate I, State 2, a used example of this rare shade, good margins all round, well cancelled in black leaving the head clear, backed into original piece. A fine example of a scarce stamp. Cert. Dr. Avi (2020) Sassone = € 2'500.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 220 CHF

    Lot# : 1546 Sicily

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    5 gr. vivid vermilion, 2nd plate in compl. sheet of 100 examples with full sheet margins, original gum which is intact for the majority of the examples, very fresh, minute oxidation traces in the upper and left sheet margin. A spectacular rarity. Cert. Enzo Diena (1986) Sassone = € 225'000 for 25 blocks of four.rnProvenance: Collection Alphonse Rothschild
    Starting bid : 10,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 14,500 CHF

    Lot# : 1547 Sicily

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    1859 (May 19): 5 gr. vermilion, Plate IIa, a used example of fine colour, close to good margins all round, lightly cancelled in black. A scarce stamp. Cert. Carraro (2003) Sassone = € 5'500.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : 420 CHF

    Lot# : 1548 Sicily

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    1859 (Jan 1): 20 gr. slate-grey, a used example of good colour, ample margins all round, position 72 showing retouch to '2' and frameline above, lightly cancelled in black leaving the retouch clear. Scarce. Signed E. Diena,. Cert. Dr. Avi (2019) Sassone = € 4'500.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1549 Sicily

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    1859 (Jan 10): 50 gr. lake-brown, Plate I, a used example of bold colour, ample margins all round, lightly cancelled in black leaving the head clear. A scarce stamp. Signed E. Diena. Cert. Dr. Chiavarello (1999) Sassone = € 12'000.
    Starting bid : 800 CHF
    Hammer price : 950 CHF

    Lot# : 1550 Sicily

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    1820/38: REAL SERVIZIO handstamp in red on 1820 (June) letter (earliest usage known) with adjacent 1820/38 SCICLI oval h.s. as well as REAL SERVIZIO in black on 1838 letter from NASO, both to Palermo. Fine and rare.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1551 Sicily

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    1861: Sardegna used in Sicily, Group of three letters including scarce usage of black horse shoe cancel (ferro di cavallo) applied to 1861 10 c. brown olive grey on letter from S. Stefano di Camastra (July 1, 1861) to Messina (Sassone R3, ex. coll. Nino Aquila with 1976 cert. A. Diena), further straight line SCICLI (Sass. 12 pt.) struck to 10 c. bruno cioccolato scuro (one of only eight letters known in this shade, Sassone 14Ce) on 1861 (July 21) letter to Palermo (signed by Giulio Bolaffi 1949 and Alberto Diena plus cert. Enzo Diena, 1995), as well as a fine strike of ovale BROLO handstamp (Sass. R1) applied to 10 c. grigio olivastro chiaro on 1861 (May 23) dated letter to Palermo (cert. Enzo Diena, 1995). A fine selection of three very scarce usages Sass. = € 60'000.
    Starting bid : 3,000 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 2105 Sicily

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    Italy - Sicilia, Diena, Emilio 1904; A HISTORY OF THE POSTAGE STAMPS OF SICILY with twenty plates of Autotype illustrations. 143 pages, translated by E. B. Evans, published by Stanley Gibbons London. Half leather hardbound with raised spine, gold tooled. A very rare monograph.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 220 CHF
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