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Lot 40256 – 1862 Cover from Kibarty (nowadays Lithuania) with 1858 10k perf. 12 1/2 used to fraud the mails

1862 Cover from Kibarty (nowadays Lithuania) with 1858 10k perf. 12 1/2 used to fraud the mails
Lot 40256 – 1862 Cover from Kibarty (nowadays Lithuania) with 1858 10k perf. 12 1/2 used to fraud the mails
Poland
Price realised
350 EUR
Estimate
500 – 750 EUR
Auction date
Wed 15 Dec 2021 at 10:00 (Europe/Zurich)
Description

1862 (Feb 9) Cover to St. Petersburg, franked by 1858 10k brown and blue, perf. 12 1/2, previously used with dotted cancellation used in Russian territory, but used in polish territory on this letter , tied by blurred strike of concentric rings numeral “282” of Kibarty (in present day Kybaartai, Lithuania), with corresponding bilingual cds at top right, adjacent sender’s cachet from the neighbouring town of Wirballen (Virbalis, also in Lithuania), struck on reverse with St. Petersburg receiving cds; a rare postal fraud exhibiting a stamp used in two different territories, Poland and Russia.

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