Lot 40937 – The Famous 20gr Postal Forgery
Lot 40937 – The Famous 20gr Postal Forgery
Italian States » Naples
Price realised
Unsold
Estimate
10’000 EUR
Auction date
Wed 11 Dec 2019 at 14:30 (Europe/Zurich)
Description
POSTAL FORGERY of the 20gr rose brown on 1861 (2.2) folded insured valuable entire from Naples to Paris, further franked with normal 50gr rose carmine, both neatly tied by boxed ‘ANNULATO’, with red straight line mkgs ‘ASSICURATA’ and ‘CHARGE’ alongside, an important usage of the postal forgery and a rarity, cert. Colla (2001)
Catalogue ref: F13+14b
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