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Auction: 166 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 605

#3, 1855-56 2r Carmine on bluish, loops watermark, pair showing clear margins all around, tied by "parrilla" oval handstamp to May 22, 1864 cover from San Juan to Alicante, Spain, endorsed "Paquete Yngles", with dispatch c.d.s. at lower left, entering the British mail with small "Porto Rico" c.d.s. on May 25, struck on reverse, with London transit and Alicante c.d.s.'s alongside, on front, additionally showing fancy "Franco" cachet in blue and "4R." due marking on receipt, a very rare and fine franking;

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