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Auction: SW1002 - Latin America, including the Tito Collection - Part I
Lot: 1016

1856, 80c. green, position 9, featuring double frame line at right, frame line at base and part of the left margin missing, otherwise good margins, on entire letter dated 2 November 1856, from Buenos Aires (Argentina) to Perdido (Uruguay). Originally privately conveyed by ferry, without adhesive, from Buenos Aires to Montevideo, where the ´´Diligencia´´ stamp was applied for onward overland transmission, paying a double weight letter rate, carried following the stagecoach route via Santa Lucía and San José to Rosario, where it changed to a secondary route and delivered to forwarder Diego MacEntyre, as per endorsement ´´para dejar en el puesto del Sr. MacEntyre puntas de San Gregorio´´, this being responsible to consign the letter to the addressee. Some reduced small stains and vertical folds of which one passes through the adhesive. One of eight covers recorded with this value, this possessing the added significance of being unique as originating from abroad. Certs. Moorhouse and Holcombe, as well as manuscript notation on reverse by the Soto Hermanos of Montevideo stating this item to be genuine and to originate from an archive. Ciardi 2. Starting Price US$ 5,000

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