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Auction: SW1013 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 283

1879, Sept. 28. 5b. black, postal stationery card from Turnu Severin to Vienna, additionally franked with Second Bucharest print 5b. carmine instead of green, ERROR OF COLOUR, tied by "T. Severin" c.d.s., showing arrival alongside. The error was caused by a cliché of 5b. in the plate of 10b.; the postal authorities considered this stamp to represent the 10b. denomination and a postal rate of 15b. was intended in this case. (A similar card from the same "Hirsch" correspondence, but bearing a 10b. denomination, is included for comparison). Only two examples of this significant rarity on an entire are known. Cert. Bloch, signed Holcombe (with additional statement: "2 known" in manuscript). Mi. 50 F.

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