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Auction: SW1013 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 21

1845, 30 r. black, worn impression, type II, a marginal block of four from the right of the sheet, partly cut into at right, otherwise good to enormous margins, tied by red “Grampará” octagonal handstamps on back of single weight cover, endorsed “V. So. Sebastião”, carried at the maritime rate from Grampará to Maranhão. Multiple torn at right on opening, as usually encountered after having been applied to seal the letter, and repaired. One of less than ten covers so far recorded bearing a block of four of this denomination, this multiple exhibiting a scarce cancellation usage in red. Cert. Moorhouse. RHM 5. Ex Hubbard.

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€900