Auction 333-341 Europe & Overseas - Day 5

1858: 5 kop. blue large pearls, used horizontal pair with large to very large margins all round, each adhesive cancelled by pen cross and the pair tied by central large HELSINGFORS cds, dated 22 / 3 1859 to piece. A superb and most attractive multiple, cert. Gummesson (1997) FACIT 1/IIv3= SEK 100'000.
Provenance: Collections Mertens and Fabergé; collection Tobias Mellgren, Corinphila sale 101 (Nov. 1997), lot 531; collection William H. Gross, Spink Shreves Galleries 102 (May 2008), lot 1021.