1853-65 Colon Heads 5c, 10c, 20c, group of 17 singles, mostly very fine with full margins and from various printings, mainly used; a very fine lot scarce in this quality. (Image)

1853 5c brown-red, London printing on blued paper, superb example with wide balanced margins, and finely struck par large part of bluish barred target hs, a finer copy than the single of the Hackmey's collection that sold for 750 CHF. (Image)

CANCELLED STAMPS FOR ROWLAND HILL’S NEPHEW ORMOND HILL 1855, Second London printing, 5c red-brown on blued paper, position 2, an excellent example displaying large margins and with watermarked lines at left, bright colour, neatly struck with "CANCELLED" obliterator and preserving its original gum. Illustrated in the Peter Jaffe handbook on page 37. One of just three examples recorded out of the six that can exist. Cert. BPA (1995). Note (as quoted by Peter Jaffe in "Cancelled by Perkins Bacon“, published for Spink & Son Ltd by James Bendon Ltd (1998): In April 1861 Ormond Hill, the nephew of Rowland Hill, asked to Joshua Butters Bacon, the head of Perkins Bacon & Co., to procure him six specimens of new or uncommon stamps for him or his friends. In August, the Perkins Bacon & Co. sent obliterated examples of each of the stamps named in a list by Ormond Hill. It turned out that the supply of the Crown Agents‘ property was given without authority and Ormond Hill was not asked to return the "specimens". As a consequence, the case damaged Perkins Bacon reputation and its task as printers for the Crown Agents. The Stanley Gibbons catalogue prices such Ormond Hill, Perkins Bacon "CANCELLED" stamps of the British colonies at £9000 to £32000, only six examples of each stamp can exist at most. Provenance: Dr. Conrad Latto and Joseph Hackmey. (Image)

1857 10c blue, Santiago print, bisect with fine to large margins on attractive entire sent from Talca to Santiago, stamp obliterated by Talca mute circular cds and datestamp 21 Dec; a very fine and fresh entire letter with full contents, horizontal file fold, signed Holcombe. (Image)

1861 10c blue, Santiago print, pair with one diagonal bisect with large margins all round, ideally tied to attractive entire sent from Coquimbo to Santiago, stamp obliterated by Coquimbo mute circular cds and datestamp 6 Sep 1861 (with "6" and "61" inserted in pen); a very fine and fresh entire letter with full contents, horizontal file fold, scarce in this outstanding quality. (Image)

1874 (Aug 24). Envelope sent free of charge from Santiago to England, addressed to Bellefontaine prés Montereau (France), with illustrated ''Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura/Chile 1869'' marking with cow, plough and bale, as well as ''Dirección General de Correos/Receptoría(?) de Chile'' handstamp with postman riding a horse, "Santiago/Chile" cds and framed ''Franca'', the latter three all in violet. The cover shows on reverse the cachet of the Chilean consulate in Liverpool, which makes believe that this mail was most probably carried in a mail bag for diplomatic correspondence carried via Panama and addressed to the Chilean consul in Liverpool, from where it was forwarded to France via the regular mail, posted and franked with very fine Great Britain 1874 6 d. grey (pl. 13, ''Huth'' perfin),tied by "Liverpool 16 OC 74" duplex, with red oval ''PD'' alongside, showing French transits and arrival on front and reverse. Cover with imperfections due to rough opening at top, nevertheless an exceptional, fascinating and probably unique mixed franking of Chilean official mail with Great Britain stamps, including a most rare usage of transatlantic diplomatic mail. Provenance: Ángel Menéndez. (Image)