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Lot 1701

Opening: 5.000 €

5 c. deep chocolate brown, horizontal pair, the left stamp just clear at top, otherwise good to very large margins with parts of two neighbours stamps at left, tied by seven bars target to lettersheet with adjacent red "SANTIAGO 31 JULIO 55" to Valparaiso. Very fine and extremely rare. We have just one further such franking recorded.

Provenance: Jean Dupont (Balasse 1981)  'Islander' (95. Corinphila auction, 1996)