Lot 40040 – The Remarkable Friend Cover

Stamp of Greece » Large Hermes Heads » 1862-67 2nd Athens print The Remarkable Friend Cover

Lot 40040 – The Remarkable Friend Cover

Greece » Large Hermes Heads » 1862-67 2nd Athens print

Prix réalisé

4’500 EUR

Estimation

5’000 – 8’000 EUR

Date de vente

Wed 13 Jun 2018 at 19:00 (Europe/Zurich)

Description

THE REMARKABLE FRIEND COVER

1862-67 Second Athens Print 1L on cover from Argos (12 May 1867) to Tripolis bearing no less than ten examples in a variety of claret-brown and red-brown shades as well as two 5L from the same issue, some stamps touched at places.

One of the most striking and remarkable covers of classic Greece

Provenance: Friend, Holcombe and Zachariades

Expertise: Cert. Holcombe

Estimate: € 5’000 – € 8’000

Catalogue ref: 15c+15d+15e+17

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June 2018 Auction Series

Catalogue

Rarities of the World