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Auction: 5011 - Stamps & Covers of the World
Lot: 2497

x Spain — thick bluish paper 12r. deep vermilion, a horizontal pair with small to large margins on 1854 (27 May) wrapper to Buenos Ayres "Via Canarias" and tied by barred oval obliterator, showing red Barcelona despatch c.d.s. alongside with a good strike of the British Post Office Crowned circle "paid/at/teneriffe" with the open-circle Teneriffe c.d.s. on flap which opens well for display; fine and rare. Comex Certificate (1989). S.G. 43, £1100 and CC2, £3500. Photo Estimate £ 2,200-2,800

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