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Auction: SW1019 - The Collectors' Series incl. Colombia, Italian P.O.'s in China, Bulgaria, Rumania, Fiscals & Aeronautical Memorabilia
Lot: 563

1917-22 Italian Post OfficesPeking1917, 40c. on 1l. brown and green, hand surcharge, neatly used on piece, exhibiting the "R.R. Poste Italiane/Pechino-Cina" datestamp complete, on 22 November 1917. Due to its freshness, rich colours, intact perforations and superb strike of the cancellation, it is considered, as confirmed in the certificate, as "the finest example" of this extremely rare stamp, of which only about ten are recorded. Of great desirability. Cert. Bottacchi. Sassone 7; € 85,000+. Photo

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€27,000