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Auction: 16USA - The Frederick R Mayer Collection of Costa Rica
Lot: 89

#3, 1863 4r Green, attractively centered single tied to extremely rare postage due cover to Paris, France by ""San Jose/25 Nov 82"" double ring c.d.s. (SJ-Pmk9), additional clearer strike to left, carried by British mails, upon arrival in France it was marked with a ""T"" handstamp indicating due mail, where a French 1882 !Fr postage due was affixed and cancelled by a black triangular handstamp,corresponding to the red crayon ""100"" notation, Paris arrival c.d.s. at bottom left, bit of back flap missing, overall very fine and striking; an immensely rare cover, being one of less than ten ""cuatro reales"" first issue covers recorded and the only one to bear French posta Estimate US$ 3,500-4,000

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