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Auction: SW1013 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 9

First Issue. 1867, an extraordinary assembly comprising 10 covers and one document, featuring six items bearing one 5c. pair, with mainly different states or re-engravings of the original plate; usages including one infrequent "Franca" in red, Sucre postmarks, pen crosses with italic "Tupisa" alongside; an extremely rare franking with 5c. strip of three (signed Rendon) carried inland from Santa Cruz; two external covers bearing 5c. vertical strip of four from Tupisa to Argentina and from Ayacucho to Peru; one 10c. pair on reverse of cover from La Paz to Arequipa (Peru), being one of at most three covers recorded with this highly desirable franking (as a matter of fact, the Patiño collection, the most important ever formed, only contained two covers with this franking); as well as a very significant document bearing two 5c. blocks of four tied in manuscript, representing the earliest usage known of Bolivian adhesives, on 22 June 1867, thus pre-dating by 16 days the earliest known usage on cover. The lot includes seven certificates comprising Moorhouse (3), Rendon (3) and R.P.S. (1). This assembly constitutes an excellent and very difficult basis, of remarkable quality for this issue, for a major traditional classic collection of Bolivia, where early postal history is of great scarcity; (as a matter of fact, the "Grand Prix D'Honneur" collection formed by Martha Villarroel de Peredo featured 12 first issue covers). Most items in this group originate from the famous Patiño collection.

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€34,000