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Auction: SW1009B - The Collector's Series - Latin America
Lot: 1067

1920, Dec. 20-25. Commercial envelope from Medellín to New York, bearing a magnificent marginal-example of "Cliff and Lighthouse" 30c. on 10c. light brown-red, typewritten surcharge, tied by very elusive "Compañía Colombiana/De/Navegación Aérea/Agencia De/Medellín" large oval handstamp in violet, additionaly franked, for the single external rate, with two National Post 5c. cancelled by indistinct c.d.s. dated 25 December, which also passes through the "Hospital de San Vicente/Medellín" 1c. charity label. "Correos Aéreos/Cartagena" oval cachet on reverse applied to airmail. The only cover known bearing any vignette of this provisional issue and addressed to a foreign destination -its significance is reinforced by the fact that very few vignettes with typewritten surcharge were produced-, and the desirability of this cover is further enhanced by the very rare usage of the C.C.N.A. handstamp of the Medellín Agency (as also stated by Eugenio Gebauer in his catalogue on page 41). One of the greatest aerophilatelic rarities of Colombia. Gebauer 24. Ex Jacobo Neuburger.

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