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Auction: SW1002 - Latin America, including the Tito Collection - Part I
Lot: 1421

1884, 280r. carmine, Ottwill Reprint, ample to three large margins, on soiled thin paper without gum. Minute pin hole not detracting. Paulo Ottwill was an engraver who, without official authorization and using a steel plate of 200 units, printed about four sheets of this stamp; the reprint was discovered and the engraver processed and imprisoned, with the consequence of the greatest part of the material produced being destroyed. Of great scarcity, this being the only example ever seen by Mr. Taveira in his long collector and researcher"s lifetime. RHM RE-1 = R$ 6,500. Starting Price US$ 500

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