Auction 321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

1858: Bull's Heads 54 parale blue on greenish blue horizontally laid paper, a fresh and fine used example, margins shaved at right, good to large on the other sides, tied by crisp inverted part strike of "BERLAD / MOLDOVA" datestamp (9/.) in blue (Kiriac fig. 272). An appealing example of this desirable stamp of which only 15 examples are known used from Berlad. Signed Thier & Heimbüchler.rnReference: Illustrated in Handbook I on page 309, pos. 13.rnProvenance: Corinphila sale 47 (Dec. 1960), lot 2183A.