Auction: 164 - The "Inclinados" Issues of Brazil including "Bull's Eye" Paper
Lot: 34
1845 30r black, type II, worn impression, a remarkable marginal block of four from the right of the sheet, partly cut into at right, otherwise good to enormous margins, tied by faint clean strikes of red ''Grampará'' octagonal handstamps on back of single weight cover, endorsed ''V. So. Sebastiao'', carried at the maritime rate from Grampará to Maranhão, multiple torn at right on opening, as usually encountered after having been applied to seal the letter, and repaired, one of less than ten covers so far recorded bearing a block of four of this denomination, this block exhibiting a scarce cancellation usage in red; 2010 Moorhouse certificate; RHM 5;
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$1,300