Lot 40896 – 1858 Bull’s Head 27 parale black on rose horizontally laid paper, used example with good to large margins all round

1858 Bull’s Head 27 parale black on rose horizontally laid paper, a used example with good to large margins all round, corner creased at upper left, cancelled by red crayon and by large part FOKSCHANI / MOLDOVA datestamp (..9/9) in blue. Repaired over thin at mid right, despite the imperfections, a stamp of fine appearance, considerably better than the photograph in the Heimbüchler Handbook I on page 275, illustration 6. A very rare stamp. Signed Bartels, Köhler, Carl Lange; certs. Carl Lange (1957), Heimbüchler (2018) Provenance: E. Mohrmann, June 1957; Robson Lowe, Zurich, Oct 1975.