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Auction: 168 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 608

Kn #32; GJ #34; 8th Printing, 1872 5c Rose-carmine, pair showing complete to ample margins, tied by "Estafeta Ambulante/F.C.S./R" double circle and additionally by "Buenos Aires/14 Ago 72" c.d.s. on incomplete envelope to Norwich, England, showing "1/-" ship fee on front, London transit and arrival c.d.s. on reverse; several paper repairs to cover, the pair being slightly misplaced after the repairing process of the envelope, still though a genuine and very rare usage of this traveling P.O. cancellation on transatlantic mail.

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$3,500