Lot 70080 – PERU
1858 First issue 1/2 peso buff diagonal bi
Lot 70080 – PERU 1858 First issue 1/2 peso buff diagonal bi
Rarities of the World
Price realised
19’000 EUR
Estimate
15’000 – 20’000 EUR
Auction date
jeu. 7 déc. 2017 at 12:00 (Europe/Zurich)
Description
PERU
1858 First issue 1/2 peso buff diagonal bisect used as 4 dineros on cover to Arequipa, tied by oval PUNO “ring” cancel in black, dated inside “Puno DIC 16, 1859”, small corner fault on stamp
A major rarity with only two bisect covers known (the other is also from Puno, dated Jul 11 1860 which sold for CHF27’000 in Corinphila in 1994)
Provenance: Hubbard
Expertise: signed Bloch and Calves, cert. Moorhouse (2010)
Estimate: € 15’000 – € 20’000 Catalogue ref: 6 var
Catalogue
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