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Auction: SW1020 - Maritime Mail of Spanish Colonies in America
Lot: 358

Venezuela1859, 1r. blue, fine printing, two examples showing complete to large margins, used on 22 July 1861 entire letter from La Guaira to Genoa (Italy), paying the single weight not exceeding ½ ounce as stipulated for carriage between Venezuela and St. Thomas, following involvement of British packet from St. Thomas to England, being backstamped in London, each stamp cancelled by "0" numeral handstamp, with alongside dispatch c.d.s., framed "GB/1F 60c" Anglo-French accountancy marking, French entry at Calais, and handstruck on arrival with "20" due marking in manuscript. Arrival on reverse. A pair or two single stamps represent the highest franking of the 1 real fine printing, with fewer than five examples so far recorded, this being one of just two transatlantic covers known with two examples of this value. Cert. Moorhouse.

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