Lot 42110 – 1885, 10c grey-violet on pelure paper, type 8, diagonal half on piece

1885, 10c grey-violet on pelure paper, type 8, diagonal half used to pay a single letter rate, tied to piece by “Zea” in ms, one of only two bisects recorded, this precious item being as close as one can come to an example of this very rare stamp to a postal document; cert. Bortfeldt (2009); ex Santa María.