Auction 333-341 Europe & Overseas Americas (North, Central & South America) - Day 1

Inclinados 1844/46: 180 r. black on greyish paper, an unused vertical pair with large margins all round, showing portion of adjoining stamp at top and small part of marginal vertical rule at right, fine and extremely rare multiple: the second largest unused multiple recorded with just five such known (four vertical, one horizontal), this being, in this describer's opinion, undoubtedly the finest. Illustrated in "Inclinados" by Walter G. Taveira on page 249. Signed Saatchi, A. Diena Scott = $ 9'000++.
Provenance: Collection Norman Hubbard, Robson Lowe, Basel, 18 March 1975, lot 1656; R. Seabra Benavides ("Tijuca"), Torres, London, 2001.