Lot 10270 – 1866, 500r orange, two strips of nine rejoined as a horizontal block of 18 used

1866, 500r orange, two strips of nine in rejoined as a horizontal block of 18, deep shade, both apparently used on the same postal document as the couple exhibit the same segmented cork cancel in dark violet (very infrequent shade); as a rejoined block, the largest used multiple of the highest perforated « Dom Pedro » denomination, unique (the non-rejoined largest multiple being a block of 15);

Note: Paulo Comelli recorded these two strips in his census in « Mosaico » (an additional third strip was not listed then) and states that the strips in this lot do not fit together. Nevertheless, each third and fourth positions of each strip clearly match the perforation with its neighbouring stamp of the other strip, and especially the fourth ones, where they both show one perforation not applied. Other stamps also fit very well together, although not towards the right, which would have made Comelli believe that they did not match, although he thinks they were used contemporarily on the same document. The evidently match of the perforations at left led us to believe that this was originally a block of 18 and can be considered as such when rejoined.

Provenance: Itamar Bopp and Dr. de Amaral Machado.