227: Europe & Overseas | 228 : Chile - The Joseph Hackmey Collection (part 1)

Recess by Narciso Desmadryl from Perkins Bacon Plates 1854 (Sept): 10 c. blue, an attractive horizontal strip of six, large margins all round with second stamp imperceptibly grazed at base and portion of adjoining stamp at right, slight aging of no significance, used on cover from Valparaiso to Buenos Aires, Argentina paying the 1½ ounce rate and fully prepaid, tied by target handstamps in black with VALPARAISO despatch cds below (Oct 14) in red. Manuscript 'Franco' beneath the stamps, a spectacular and extremely rare franking (the largest recorded with the Desmadryl 10 centavos) with just a handful of classic period covers recorded to this destination. Certs. RPS (1975), BPA (1992).rnProvenance: Collection Gerhard Blank, RL, Dec 1991, lot 1096.
Catalogue 228: CHILE - The Colon Issues