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Auction: SW1013 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 274

1879, Aug. 5. Small envelope to Mehadia, bearing First Bucharest print 10b. blue, two single examples, and 5b. blue instead of olive, ERROR OF COLOUR, tied by indistinct blue c.d.s., backstamped in transit. The error of colour was not considered as a 5b. denomination, being regarded as a 10b. as a result of its blue colour, with the franking consequently paying the correct 30b. rate. Some perforation flaws are of no significance for this highly important rarity. As far as we can say, the only cover known with this desirable and significant error of colour, one of the greatest postal-history rarities of this period. Signed Holcombe. Mi. 44 F. Ex Cohen.

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