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Auction: 164 - The "Inclinados" Issues of Brazil including "Bull's Eye" Paper
Lot: 22

1844 90r black, type I, fine impression, and 1846 10r on thin greyish paper, intermediate impression, the 90r on "Bull's Eyes" paper touching at right, mostly large margins in other respects, very fresh, in mixed franking with 10r vertical strip of three, touching in two places and torn at top on opening as usual, otherwise well margined, both paying a single maritime rate on cover, with two side flaps lacking, from Grampará to Maranhão, endorsed "P. Pernambucana", with the franking tied by light strikes of "Grampará" octagonal handstamp in red with January 29, 1851 manuscript date, one of the greatest postal history rarities of this issue, being the only cover recorded bearing a mixed franking composed of "Inclinados" stamps printed on "Bull's Eyes" and the thin papers, both being clearly contrasting in this instance; RHM 4, 7B;

Estimate
$40,000 to $50,000