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Auction: SW1002 - Latin America, including the Tito Collection - Part I
Lot: 1107

1860-61, 60c. brownish purple, type 5, dotted impression, and 120c. blue, type 8, both tied by mute ´´scarab´´ of Salto to double weight cover to Buenos Aires, carried by the ´´Salto´´ steamship, with dispatch oval dated 1.8.1863. Mail to Argentina originating from the interior towns from this period is very rare. Cert. Moorhouse, opinion Holcombe. Ciardi 13, 16. Ex Díaz/Mercedes and Bustamante. Starting Price US$ 1,000

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