Lot 40279 – 1871 10b orange, four examples on cover to Bulgaria

1871 10b orange, four examples, including one well margined and with huge sheet margin at top, the other three just touched in very small place on one side, otherwise good margins, tied by very good strike of « Galati » cds’s on 16 March 1872 entire letter from Galatz to Rutschouk (Bulgaria), showing framed « P.D. » at right; we record only one similar cover with the same franking from this same correspondence (Nicolau archive), Bulgaria being a rare destination; the other item, with all stamps being well margined, being sold for CHF 16’000 hammer price in 2007.