Lot 30227 – 1852-59, 10c grey-black, horizontal block of eight used

1852-59, 10c grey-black, horizontal block of eight, cancelled by nine-bar oval handstamp, just touched at left, otherwise full to ample margins, small slight repair between the upper and lower stamps in vertical pair at left not impinging on the design and vertical crease (with small paper breaks) between the two blocks of four and passing along frame line of the left block, with the right block of four preserved in good condition; the largest multiple recorded of the “Number One” of Luxembourg; cert. Demuth (1985); ex Del Puente and Houser.