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Auction: SW1015 - The Philatelic Collector's Series
Lot: 86

1857, 60c. blue, second type, crisp impression and bright shade, excellent margins for the most part, just slightly cut into in part of right margin, cancelled by pen cross on January 14, 1859 cover from Montevideo to Rocha via Pando, San Carlos and Maldonado stagecoach relay stations. The cover, which belongs to the Piñeiro correspondence, was acquired by Anselmo Seijó in 1892 who sold it some year to Rodríguez, an important Uruguayan collector and dealer, who asked at the time of the purchase for a manuscript declaration and signature inside by Seijó certifying the provenance and genuineness of this cover. Three very interesting notes and signatures applied inside at different times by Messrs. Seijó, Rodríguez and Ferrer stating the provenance of this rarity. Illustrated in the “Uruguay Filatélico” of 1932. One of the very few covers recorded bearing this second type, emanating from the famous Piñeiro correspondence which enabled the genuineness of this cover to be confirmed. Cert. Hernández Rocha and Moorhouse. Ciardi 1A. Ex Seijó, Rodríguez, Ferrer, Ferrary and Dale-Lichtenstein.

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€10,000