Lot 40408 – Cross Border Rarity – 80 Parale red on bluish paper on cover

Stamp of Romania » 1858 (1st Nov.) - 1861 Moldavia - Handstruck at Jassy - Imperforate Cross Border Rarity - 80 Parale red on bluish paper on cover
Stamp of Romania » 1858 (1st Nov.) - 1861 Moldavia - Handstruck at Jassy - Imperforate Cross Border Rarity - 80 Parale red on bluish paper on cover
Stamp of Romania » 1858 (1st Nov.) - 1861 Moldavia - Handstruck at Jassy - Imperforate Cross Border Rarity - 80 Parale red on bluish paper on cover
Stamp of Romania » 1858 (1st Nov.) - 1861 Moldavia - Handstruck at Jassy - Imperforate Cross Border Rarity - 80 Parale red on bluish paper on cover
Stamp of Romania » 1858 (1st Nov.) - 1861 Moldavia - Handstruck at Jassy - Imperforate Cross Border Rarity - 80 Parale red on bluish paper on cover
Stamp of Romania » 1858 (1st Nov.) - 1861 Moldavia - Handstruck at Jassy - Imperforate Cross Border Rarity - 80 Parale red on bluish paper on cover

Lot 40408 – Cross Border Rarity – 80 Parale red on bluish paper on cover

Romania » 1858 (1st Nov.) – 1861 Moldavia – Handstruck at Jassy – Imperforate
Price realised
36’000 EUR
Estimate
12’000 – 20’000 EUR
Auction date
Thu 7 Dec 2023 at 11:00 (Europe/Zurich)
Description

A Cross Border Rarity

80 Parale red on bluish paper, large margined single, superbly tied by oval FRANCO/JASSY in bright blue, on neat on registered envelope via Fokschani to Bucarest, with additional JASSY/MOLDOVA/2.5 cds and RECIPISSE straight-line alongside. The 80 parale rate only paid the postage to the Walachian Border, being 40 parale and 40 parale registration, the balance was paid by the receiver. Cert. Gmach (2023)

This unique cover is the best of the cross-border usages in the entire Classic Romania, considered by many collectors as the most valuable of the rare 80 parale on bluish paper. A normal-condition example on bluish paper on cover was sold in the Tomasini sale by David Feldman in 2006 for €36’000; for a 40 parale cross-border cover, see “Cornelia” collection, lot 7054, sold for CHF12’000.

320.007.002: Norway. 1867-68 Coat-of-Arms (Facit 11-15). Covers
Catalogue ref: Michel Mi. 7ax

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