Lot 30256 – 1862 30par blue on wove paper, two single frankings

1862 30 par blue on wove paper, two single frankings on two similar envelopes (one with original contents) from the same correspondence, addressed to ‘Mr. Marculescu’ at the ‘Ministry of Finance in Bucharest’, each franked with four margin examples tied by a very fine “Predealul” cds in black (Kiriac fig. 349) dated 29-2 and 28-3 respectively, some ageing and soiling to envelopes as expected; Predeal is the rarest and highest priced S62 cds in the Heimbüchler handbook and the post office archives indicate that Predeal was issued with just 295 30par stamps; no more than four covers are believed to exist with this rare postmark; illustrated in Heimbüchler II (pg 114); signed Heimbüchler; ex Heimbüchler collection pt 1.