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Auction: 5021 - France, Featuring the Château Ramezay Collection, Europe & O/seas & B. Empire
Lot: 3125

Italian Colonies Eritrea 1895 (Sept.?) stampless envelope (part flap missing) to "Filippo Campanella, fermo in posta, Milano", showing a fine strike of the extremely rare straight-line "archico" h.s. (Bianchi RR) with faint Massaua squared-circle d.s. alongside, backstamped by arrival c.d.s.; the envelope is annotated "Per la franchiggia postale Capitano Campanella". One of the great rarities of Eritrean and Italian Colonial postal history. Photo Estimate £ 1,500-2,000Note: Dr. Paolo Bianchi records only one example of the handstamp applied to a loose 5c. adhesive

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