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Auction: SW1009B - The Collector's Series - Latin America
Lot: 1066

1920, Dec. 20. Cover (reduced at left) from Medellín to Cartagena, bearing "Cliff and Mountains " 30c. on 10c. light brown-red, typewritten surcharge, paying the national postage for the single rate with 3c., both tied by blue duplex datestamp on dispatch, with the vignette also tied by "Cía. Colombiana de Navegación/Aérea/Medellín" ribbon handstamp, and Cartagena boxed receiving datestamp in blue at foot. An exceedingly rare usage of these typewritten vignettes, of which very few were provisionally surcharged to be used on the 20 December Flight, with an extremely small quantity of covers recorded. One of the important rarities of Colombian aerophilately, of great fascination. Cert. P.F. Gebauer 24. Ex Sánchez Vega.

Sold for
$2,500