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Auction: SW1015 - The Philatelic Collector's Series
Lot: 143

1861-62, 1/2r. orange, in an intense brilliant shade, good to very large margins, tied by clean ''Correos/La Guaira'' cds in blue, used to pay the single rate for the first distance on arrival at La Guaira for onward transmission to Caracas, on 14 October 1861 cover from Le Havre to Caracas, paying the double French rate to Venezuela on dispatch with 1853-54 20c. blue, type I, and 40c. orange, tied by ''1495'' dotted lozenges, with Le Havre maritime cds and boxed ''P.P.'' in red alongside. A filing fold has caused a horizontal tear which is clear of the franking and closed with hinges on reverse. A fabulous item bearing the only recorded genuine French-Venezuelan combination franking to include the first Venezuelan issue. Of tremendous visual appeal and, without doubt, can be ranked as one of the great combination frankings in French postal history. Highly desirable for both collectors of French and Venezuelan philately. Cert. Moorhouse, signed Holcombe and Calves. Ex Bustamante and Heister.

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€18,000