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VERY FINE. ONE OF FOUR KNOWN COMPLETE SHEETS OF THE 20-CENTAVOS 1859 FIRST ISSUE FROM STONE B. THESE ARE THE ONLY COMPLETE SHEETS OF THE ENTIRE FIRST ISSUE. A SPECTACULAR EXHIBITION ITEM.
Illustrated in Bortfeldt handbook (page 40). Ex Wickersham and Londono (Image)
VERY FINE. THIS IS ANOTHER OF THE FOUR KNOWN COMPLETE SHEETS OF THE 20-CENTAVOS 1859 FIRST ISSUE FROM STONE B. THESE ARE THE ONLY COMPLETE SHEETS OF THE ENTIRE FIRST ISSUE. AN IMPORTANT CLASSIC COLOMBIAN RARITY.
Ex Newbury (Image)
VERY FINE APPEARANCE. A RARE UNUSED MULTIPLE OF THE 20-CENTAVOS IN THE SCARCER GRAY BLUE SHADE.
Ex Wickersham and Londono (Image)
EXTREMELY FINE. THIS IS THE ONLY REGISTERED COVER EXTANT BEARING THE COLOMBIAN FIRST ISSUE, AND, IN FACT, IT IS THE ONLY REGISTERED COVER BEFORE 1863. IT IS ALSO THE LARGEST NUMBER OF FIRST ISSUE 20-CENTAVOS STAMPS KNOWN ON COVER AND THE HIGHEST FRANKING OF THE FIRST ISSUE. TRULY ONE OF THE MOST SPECTACULAR COLOMBIAN COVERS IN EXISTENCE, AND AN IMPORTANT ITEM FROM BOTH THE POSTAL HISTORY AND PHILATELIC PERSPECTIVES.
This remarkable artifact of Colombian postal history is illustrated on page 13 of Dieter Bortfeldt's Colombia Philatelic Handbook and Catalogue 1859-1860. It surfaced in the 1982 Corinphila sale of the Neuberger collection and has no prior recorded history. The only other cover known to us which bears more than one 20-centavos is the cover to Hamburg illustrated on page 5 of the Bortfeldt handbook. (Image)
VERY FINE. COVERS WITH TWO DIFFERENT COLOMBIAN FIRST ISSUE STAMPS ARE EXCEEDINGLY RARE, AND CLASSIC COLOMBIAN COVERS TO FOREIGN DESTINATIONS ARE ALSO GREAT RARITIES. FEWER THAN A HALF-DOZEN FIRST ISSUE COVERS TO THE UNITED STATES ARE KNOWN.
Ex Gebauer. Signed Holcombe. (Image)
AN IMPORTANT COVER BEARING TWO DIFFERENT COLOMBIAN FIRST ISSUES FROM EARLY PRINTINGS AND ADDRESSED TO ENGLAND. CLASSIC COLOMBIAN COVERS TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES ARE EXTREMELY RARE. THIS IS THE ONLY KNOWN FIRST ISSUE COVER TO ENGLAND.
Ex Gebauer. Signed Holcombe (Image)
VERY FINE. A CHOICE AND RARE EXAMPLE OF THE 20-CENTAVOS 1859 FIRST ISSUE USED ON COVER.
This and the following lot make an attractive pair of covers showing the 20-centavos from Stone A and Stone B. (Image)
VERY FINE APPEARANCE. A HANDSOME AND RARE COVER BEARING THE 20-CENTAVOS FIRST ISSUE.
This and the previous lot make an attractive pair of covers showing the 20-centavos from Stone A and Stone B. (Image)