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Auction: SW1002 - Latin America, including the Tito Collection - Part I
Lot: 526

1861-62, 20c. red, the incredible Ferrary example, boasting large balanced margins on all four sides, possessing brilliant color and good impression, unused without gum as usual (no copies extant in private hands with original gum). Some of the most renowned collectors of Colombia had no unused examples of this stamp in their lifetime collections. The finest example of the rarest unused stamp of Colombian philately, of which only seven copies are recorded, including the solely five copies known in private hands and the two examples in the Tapling collection. One of the gems of South American stamps. Cert. Bortfeldt and Rendon. Scott 20. Ex Ferrary and Newbury. Starting Price US$ 15,000

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$28,000