Lot 61676 – 1861 & 1867 Two covers: 1867, 1r blue on thin grey blue paper on cover & 1861, 8r black on red-brown, quarter used as 2r on entire

1861 & 1867 Two covers: 1867, 1r blue on thin grey blue paper, bottom-sheet margin, cut a bit into at top, single-franking cover from Mexico City to Toluca, quite scarce as only about 30 covers with this stamp are known (issued Sept. 1867 and exhausted by December), stamp shows marginal frame line at foot, fine; and 1861, 8r black on red-brown, quarter used as 2r on entire letter from Aguascalientes to Zacatecas, tied by mute grid cancel, dated Jan. 1st 1863, four days before the arrival of the shipment of 2r denominations which were exhausted from Dec. 1862; cert. Jaretzky.