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Auction: SW1015 - The Philatelic Collector's Series
Lot: 89

1858, 240c. pale red, a remarkable marginal block of five with blank cliché in centre at base from position 23 in the transfer block of 30 subjects, transfer types 16-17-18 / 22-24, sheet positions 196-197-198 / 202-203-204, wide to large margins on three sides with huge sheet margin at base. Part of right-hand tablets of two adhesives at right missing and repaired and small thin in bottom margin, in no way detracting. Sheets of 204 subjects (including seven black spaces) in 17 horizontal rows of 12 were printed, composed of a transfer block of 30 subjects; the bottom two rows used the top four rows of a transfer block. The multiple from the bottom right corner of the sheet which includes part of the third and four horizontal rows from the transfer block of 30 that were used at base out of the normal sequence instead of the first and second rows. Unique, consequently being also the only multiple exhibiting the marginal blank space in existence. A fascinating Uruguayan rarity. Cert. Hernández Rocha and Díaz Paulos. Ciardi 6. Ex Banchs and Hoffmann.

Estimate
€5,000