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1856/78, collection used and * with classic covers and stamps, including blocks and stripes, covers to France in folder

1853, Isabella II. 6 cs. carmine-rose block of eight clear cancelled by oval  grill, signed A. Diena, Cert. Llach Comex (2020)

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1856, 1 re. greenish blue, horizontal pair with good to wide margins, fresh deep colour, clear cancelled by mute barred oval, fine

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1856, 1 r. greenish blue, horizontal pair on rough yellowish paper, watermark crossed lines, large margins all around, centrally-struck with 1859 c.d.s. ('JUL' inverted), showing the variety "CORRFOS” on left stamp, slight toning mostly at top, else a fine example of this variety.

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1860, Sperati forgery 19 cs. brown on salmon, cancelled and good to wide margins, cancelled by ‘7’ in mill wheel, fine. Cert. Baschwitz

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1873, postcard 5 centimos blue, used from "CADIZ 13 JAN 74” to Gibraltar, with front side arrival mark. Light creasing at left and tiny thin on reverse, still fine and attractive. This is the earliest use of a Spanish postcard to abroad and the earliest of 3 recorded cards from Spain to Gibraltar before UPU.

Illustrated in James Peter Gough ‘The Postal Card’, p. 189

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1875, postcard 5 centavos blue, with additional franking 1876, Alphonso 5 centavos brown, cancelled in transit by blue French transit mark "ESPAGNE ST.JEAN DE LUZ 2 DEC 76", to Paris. Fine and unusual.

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1882, postal stationery double card King Alfonso XII 15 centimos greyish green, complete with its answer part, with departure cds "MALAGA JUN 90” to Dorpat, Russia with arrival cds "DERPT LIFL. 24 JUN. 1890” (Old Style calendar), there re-addressed to "REVEL 26 JUN 1890”, correspondence finally returned to Spain with departure cds "REVEL 27 JUN. 1890” and arrival "MALAGA 16 JUL. 90” (New Style calendar), some very minor toning of no importance, very fine. A very scarce usage to an unusual destination 

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1879, 50 centavos grey, tied by mute cancel with adjacent "CORREOS HABANA 25 ENERO 1879" to cover to Schönbach, Germany, with arrival mark. Fine and scarce.

The transitional 50 centavos rate was valid only until March 31, 1879, which explains the scarcity of this single franking.

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1882/87, Alfonso 1 centavo grey-green, tied by clear c.d.s. "HABANA 27 OCT,83” to printed matter envelope to St. John, New Foundland. Very fine and scarce.

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1867, entire letter from Havana (23.6.) with frontside "N.YORK BREM.PK. 3/ JUL.4”, via Bremen, Hamburg and Sandosund, to Sarpsborg, Norway. Little toned.

1878, unpaid envelope sent to Chester, England, without despatch mark, but struck with typical "T” in ‘dried blood' colour, alongside manuscript "9” in black. On reverse transit mark "LIVERPOOL BR PACKET 11 DE 78”.  A rare cover.

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1917/19, Group of 3 prisoners of war covers, one franked with Spanish issue and addressed locally and censored, also one stampless envelope endorsed on the back flap "Hauptmann Harttmann, interniert auf Fernando Poo, Santa Isabel” to Stuttgart with red "CROIX ROUGE SPAGNE .. FRANC DE PORT” and various censor marks, etc., mostly fine

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1877, Surcharge "HABILITADO 12 Cs. PTA” inverted on 2 centavos de peso rose, tied by cds "MANILA 18 SE 77” to printed shipping circular, with adjacent merchant's cachet "G. VAN POLANEN PETEL & Co. Manila", to Marseilles; red French "PAQ. ANG. V. BRIND 3 NOV 77" alongside and on reverse arrival mark "MARSEILLES 4 NOV 77". The entire with usual folds, well clear off adhesive. A great rarity; the only recorded example of an inverted surcharge on this value on entire. Certificate Graus (1999). (Scott 59a)

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1879, "CONVENIOUNIVERSAL DE CORREOS" 8 cent. de peso on 100 mills., tied by small c.d.s. "MANILA 28 DIC. 79" to commercial cover to Bordeaux with frontside transit mark and on reverse "LIGNE N PAQ.FR….". File folds not affecting the stamp. A scarce cover.

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1881/88, "HABILITADO PA.U POSTAL 8 CMOS" on 2 centavos lilac rose, study of 39 stamps, mostly unused and in multiples, including blocks of four with handstamp inverted resp. double, block of nine with central row handstamps inverted, pairs with and without handstamp, etc. 4 certificates (Scott 95). Also 3 other stamps.

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1881/88, red handstamp "HABILITADO PA. CORREOS DE UN REAL" on revenue stamp 10 pesetas, tied by parilla cancel to 'Aviso de recibo' for a registered letter from Paris, dated "San Fernando Junio 1898". A very rare and interesting item, issued just days before capture of San Fernando by General Tinio and the Aguinaldo revolutionary government. (Scott 126)

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1881/88, "HABILITADO U.POSTAL UN CENT.O" on 2 4/8 centavos ultramarine, 24 copies, mostly in multiples, tied by blue c.d.s. "MANILA 3. NOV.87" to cover to the Imperial Directorate General of Posts at Bremen, Germany, with transit mark of Bavarian railway. A very scarce and attractive franking in nice condition. (Scott 101)

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