Lot 42110 – 1885, 10c grey-violet on pelure paper, type 8, diagonal half on piece

1885, 10c grey-violet on pelure paper, type 8, diagonal half used to pay a single letter rate, tied to piece by « Zea » in ms, one of only two bisects recorded, this precious item being as close as one can come to an example of this very rare stamp to a postal document; cert. Bortfeldt (2009); ex Santa María.