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Auction: SW1002 - Latin America, including the Tito Collection - Part I
Lot: 1048

1858, 180c. green, an incredible example showing good impression and brilliant shade, very good margins, with spectacular large part of left tablet of adjoining adhesive, in mixed franking with 1860 thick figures 60 c. brown lilac, fine impression, extremely fresh with large margins on all four sides. Both stamps paying a 240c. rate, corresponding to a triple weight up to 12 ?adarmes? (3/4 oz) for abroad, used on cover from Montevideo to Buenos Aires (Armstrong correspondence), tied by Montevideo oval datestamp (October 5, 1860). Illustrated on page 83 of Marcos Silvera Antúnez?s ?El Correo en el Uruguay? handbook. Only three mixed frankings of the ?Sun? Issues are known, of which two of them are on piece; this is the fabulous combination franking on cover, unique, bearing a mixed franking of second and third issues. The superlative postal history example of Uruguayan philately, which is is also regarded as one of the most important covers of South American philately. Cert. Hernández Rocha and Holcombe. Ciardi 5, 12A. Ex Hoffmann and Bustamante. Starting Price US$ 200,000

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$200,000