Lot 3122
1869, 30¢ ultramarine & carmine (121), fresh example with strong color, used with two 2¢ brown (113) singles on small Davis correspondence cover to Lima, Peru, stamps tied by New York Foreign mail cancellations, red "24" credit handstamp, "Panama AU 30 69" transit, reverse with "Lima 8 Set 869" arrival c.d.s., tiny edge flaws, Fine, the 34¢ combined American-British packet rate via Panama effective Oct. 1867 to Feb. 1870. Estimate 40,000 - 50,000
THE ONLY RECORDED 1869 30¢ USAGE TO PERU.
Expertization: 1967 P.F. Certificate.
Provenance: Haas, Lafayette
Census listing and Illustration, "A listing of 30¢ 1869 Covers" by Richard Searing in The Chronicle, Feb. 1978, No. 97, p. 49 & 54, fig. 2
Census listing and Illustration, The 1869 Issue on cover: A Census and Analysis, Rose and Searing, 1986, p. 196 & 202, fig. 2.
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Realized $42,500 |