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Auction: 4003 - Stamps & Covers of the World featuring Italy and Italian States
Lot: 415

Sicily 1859 (1 Jan.) Issue 2g. azzurro strip of four, I tavola [31-34] with very large margins (just touched in lower left corner) on 1859 (Jan.) insured wrapper to Palermo and showing oval "cefalu" despatch handstamp, "assicurata" in oval and the arrival c.d.s. on face. A magnificent cover, rare with such a fine strip of four, in perfect condition. An early date used durng the fisrt month of issue. Enzo Diena Certificate (1984). Sass. 6. Photo Estimate £ 2,000-2,500 provenance: 'Alphonse', November 1984

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£2,700