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Auction: 145 - Award Winning Collections Sale
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Brazil THE SPECTACULAR AND ENTHRALLING USAGES OF "INCLINADOS" ON "BULL´S EYES" PAPER COLLECTION 1844 22 selected items of this issue, beautifully written up and mounted on album pages, with its outstanding highlights being: 30r. type I strip of four and two blocks of four, the largest used multiples of this value, of which one block on cover, being the only item recorded; two 60r. pairs, the largest recorded multiples -irrespective of paper type-; one of the most important covers of the "Inclinados" featuring 60r. type II strip of three, which is vertical and thus demonstrating to originate from a sheet composed of just type II electros, being the largest used multiple known and further enhanced by being applied on cover, unique, -just a few sheets of "Bull´s Eyes" paper composed solely of type IIs are believed to have been issued-; 60r. strip of four, the largest multiple printed on "Bull´s Eyes" paper -comprising only of type II- recorded cover; 90r. pair on cover, unique; the stunning 90r. block of 12; the only cover recorded bearing a mixed franking composed of "Inclinados" stamps printed on "Bull´s Eyes" and the thin papers; the 30r. type II, a used example of the rarest stamp of Brazilian philately (only five so far recorded). Most of the items are accompanied by Brian Moorhouse certificates (20). Prestigious provenances include Burrus, Kuyas, Pracchia, Lima and Benevides, as well as Dr. Norman Hubbard, the most prestigious collector ever of Latin American philately, who owned all items included in this collection. Included here are most of the existing gems of this issue, constituting a major exhibit of great calibre, being obviously impossible to replicate. An extraordinary opportunity to acquire the most important assembly nowadays of the scarcest printing, i.e., on "Bull´s Eyes" paper, of one of the most fascinating, earliest and outstanding imperforate classic issues of the world: the "Inclinados". After Great Britain, Brazil was the second country in the world, as well as the first in America, to issue stamps for nationwide use. The "Inclinados", the second issue of America, appeared in Brazil after the "Bull´s Eyes", although its greater rarity is considerable in comparison with the "Bull´s Eyes", this being one of the features which reveal a proof of its importance. As a matter of fact, the most renowned collector ever of Latin America, Dr. Norman Hubbard, stated in his introduction to the sale of the "Inclinados" Issue in the Investphila´s auction catalogue of 13 November 2010: "The slanted numerals postage stamps of Brazil, known as the Inclinados, and the steamship postage stamps of Buenos Aires, known as the Barquitos, are the two rarest regular issued series of stamps of South America. Indeed, they rank immediately below the three major regular issues of classic imperforate philately, the Post Office of Mauritius, the Hawaii Missionaries, and the British Guiana Cottonreels."

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