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Auction: SW1015 - The Philatelic Collector's Series
Lot: 75

1857, June 6. Entire letter from Montevideo to Rio de Janeiro, carried by private coastal vessel to Brazil, with superb rococo ''Sala de Comercio/De/Montevideo'' oval handstamp in blue. The needs of the merchants for improvements in postal communications led to the introduction of a new marking in 1857, when Juan G. Buela received from the national Government a new authorization for a late hour postal service in the ''Chamber of Commerce''. The finest example of this handstamp in existence, this being, to our knowledge, the earliest recorded cover. Cert. Hernández Rocha.

Estimate
€1,000