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

60 reis black, Early Impression on yellowish paper, the superb top marginal horizontal pair, huge margins and full marginal line at top (First Composite plate, State B, positions 2-3), used on 1844 cover from Pernambuco to Santos, correctly pre-paying the ship rate, tied by "PERNAMBUCO SHIELD" datestamp (Jan 29) in black (Ayres fig. 1548). Illustrated in Juchert "Bull's Eyes on Covers" on page 221. Some ageing to the ink but an extremely attractive and very rare cover: just three Bulls Eye covers are recorded used from Pernambuco, this being the sole 60 reis pair used on letter from Pernambuco.
Provenance: Collection Saul Newbury (1967), Norman Hubbard, Siegel, New York, 25 May 1986, lot 2080; Dr. Hugo Goeggel, Corinphila sale 178, Feb 2013, lot 4139.