Lot 30167 – 1859 Lapirot 2d. blue, horizontal pair, positions 3-4, on large folded cover from Port Louis to France

1859 Lapirot 2d. blue, horizontal pair, positions 3-4, exceptional margins which are evenly huge all around, very fresh cancelled by oval bars cancels, on large folded cover from Port Louis to Nantes, France, with red Suez entry cds and ‘8’ décimes due marking alongside, ‘GPO/JU20 1859/MAURITIUS’ accompanied by French transit and arrival cds’s on back, paper reinforcement along horizontal fold to cover being of no importance; to our knowledge, the finest intermediate impression pair on cover

Provenance: Arthur Hind (1934), Maurice Burrus (1963), Vikram Chand

Expertise: Certs. Enzo Diena (1976), Brandon (2007)