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Auction: SW1002 - Latin America, including the Tito Collection - Part I
Lot: 1085

1859, 240c. vermilion, either shaved or cut slightly into at top and base, otherwise good margins, together with well margined 80c. orange-yellow and 180c. green, clear to large margins, all used on official registered cover from Montevideo to Carmelo, tied by oval datestamp with framed ´´Certificado´´ handstamp in the four corners as stipulated by postal rules. The franking only covered the registration fee of  500c. corresponding to 5 Reales. Different rates were applied depending on the type of correspondence remitted to the post by judicial courts, which included official and private matters, with only the latter being subject to the payment of postage fees, which were supposed to have been special and lower than the prevailing standard postal rates. This has been corroborated by this item and another of the very few registered covers recorded in this period (ex Hoffmann), this also being an official correspondence containing private matter which was only charged the registration fee, as applied in this case. As a matter of fact, a decree issued by the General Postmaster Prudencio Echevarriarza on February 6 1859, states that official correspondence had to be carried free of charge except for mails containing litigations and private matters when ´established rates´ had to be paid with adhesives, however the rate details were not specified (which were very probably already known by the contemporary postal employees). One of only three known three-colour frankings of the Thin & Thick ""Figure"" Issues, this being unique as registered mail. One of the most important covers in Uruguayan philately, of great visual impact. Cert. Hernández Rocha. Ciardi 8, 11, 12, Starting Price US$ 40,000

Sold for
$40,000