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Auction: 168 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 971

French Colonies #14, # 21, 1871-72 40c Orange and 15c Bister horizontal pair, a lovely franking with clear to large margins and bright fresh colors, mostly tied to absolutely beautiful cover to France by clear delicate 8x8 point black lozenge cancels, excellent strike of "Guadeloupe/Port-Louis/25 Juin 75" double-circle c.d.s. and matching boxed "PD" handstamp, directed to go by British packet with "Voie anglaise" in manuscript and 70c paid for that service, however "Paq. Fr./Pointe-a-Pitre/25 Juin 75" sorting transit on the reverse and carried by French packet which only required 50c, thus overpaid by 20c, neat blue St. Nazaire entry transit and backstamped Paris, extremely fine; a gorgeous and rare cover from this small village excelling in all of its aspects from its remarkably choice quality to its unusual overpaid usage; illustrated on page 60 of Robert Stone's book;

Sold for
$500