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Auction: SW1002 - Latin America, including the Tito Collection - Part I
Lot: 1066

1859, 100c. brown lake, horizontal strip of five alternating types 3-4, very good margins for the most part, just cut into in part of left margin, together with well margined 80c. orange-yellow covering the double registered rate up to 1/2 oz on November 7, 1859 cover from Montevideo to San Carlos, tied by oval Montevideo datestamps and two framed ´´Certificado´´ postmarks, repeated at bottom. Annotated as received by the addressee inside and dated 10 November. Horizontal crease slightly affecting the 80c. adhesive, of no consequence being hardly and in no way detracting. Illustrated on page 48 of Marcos Silvera Antúnez´s ´´El Correo en el Uruguay´´. An astonishing and unique registered franking, considered as one of the most important covers in Uruguayan philately. Cert. Hernández Rocha and Philatelic Foundation. Ciardi 8, 9. Ex Burrus, Bustamante and Díaz/Mercedes. Starting Price US$ 30,000

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$34,000