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Auction: 163 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1364

"Chagre./Franca" red oval handstamp, a magnificent strike in red bright color, harmoniously applied on November 21, 1844 folded letter from Chagres addressed to General Alcántara Herrán at Bogotá, paying a long-distance internal rate of 4 reales for a single weight in manuscript at top right, superb, one of only two covers recorded with this postmark, this being unique outside Panama, a major gem of Panamanian postal-history.

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$1,600