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Auction: SW1013 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 57

1861, 10c. blue, deep shade, enormous margins on three sides, large at left, affected by surface rubbing at bottom right which was very probably as a result of an attempt to fraud the post, tied to cover to Bogotá by ''Honda/Franca'' oval handstamp in blue, paying a single letter rate as per decree of 27.11.1861. The cover was addressed to Enrique Urdaneta, who exploited the ''Laguna de Siecha'' lake for Muisca gold and other precious minerals, and operated the famous ''Correo Semanal El Dorado''. Despite faults, a very desirable postal history piece of this issue. One of only five covers recorded with this value, of which only three are this single rate, this very probably being a postal fraud. Cert. Bortfeldt, signed Rendon. Scott 16.

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€850