Lot 51347 – 1899 only recorded cover with complete setting and is also the only known example sent to Germany

1899 (Jan) Registered cover sent to Germany, franked with 2c on 2m orange-brown, first printing, positions 1-2-3-4-5, applied as two pairs and a single, the complete five settings tied to the back by the Puerto Principe cds, with purple registry handstamp on front, very fine condition and extremely important, being the 5c Spanish colonial rate for foreign mail plus 5c registry fee; this is the only recorded cover with complete setting of five as well as the only known example to Germany; signed Bloch; ex Tows, Brock, Juhring, Robertson and Kouri.