Lot 20164 – 1859 Dardenne 2d blue, horizontal pair, good to huge margins, on 1860 folded entire from Port Louis

2d blue, horizontal pair, good to huge margins and showing portions of an adjoining stamp below, positions 43-44, cancelled or tied by oval bars cancel, on 1860 folded entire from Port Louis via Suez and Marseille to Bordeaux (France), with red maritime Suez transits and “8” decimes hs alongside, good colour, an extremely fine appearance

Rate: 4d overseas rate indicating a weight upto 1/2 ounce which is the correct postal rate from the Government Gazette of May 1st, 1859

Provenance: Maurice Burrus, October 1963 (Lot 221)

Vikram Chand, neatly mounted on exhibition page

Expertise: Cert. David Brandon (2007)