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Auction: SW1013 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 122

1864, 6c. dark rose, two large margined copies including one huge sheet upper margin, paying a single external rate on 7 March 1865 cover from Montevideo to Buenos Aires, tied by very fine oval ''Miguel Álvarez/Montevideo'' cachet, carried by SS ''Tevere'' (endorsement at base), being an Italian vessel embargoed by the Uruguayan government in order to avoid her capture by Brazil. One of the most significant cancellation usages in the ''Escuditos'' issues, with only two covers recorded. Cert. Hernández Rocha. Ciardi 18a.

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