Lot 60896 – 1857, 2r red on bluish paper, a phenomenal mint block of four

1857, 2r red on bluish paper, a phenomenal mint block of four, clear to mainly wide margins, detailed impression and warm rich colour, with large part original gum couple of clear spots through the light from the reverse were the gum is completely missing; an extremely rare multiple with, according to our knowledge, fewer than five recorded, and which was lacking in some of the renowned collection of Peru sold in the past (as a matter of fact the Julio Lugón Badaracco collection had only one block of four of the 2r as the largest he could find, and it did not include any block for the 1r blue); cert. Pascal Behr (2008).