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 used example, neatly tied by part strike of "FOLTITSCHENI / MOLDOVA" datestamp (./9) in blue (Kiriac fig. 276). Margins fair at right, good to large on the other sides. On reverse at top some thinning and minor crease, nevertheless a most appealing example with this extremely rare cancellation of which only three examples are known used from Foltitscheni, all adhesives with imperfections. Signed Thier & Heimbüchler; certs. Birnbach (1926), Heimbüchler (1997).rnReference: Illustrated in Handbook I on page 317, pos. 9.rnProvenance: Köhler (April 1934); Corinphila sale 107 (Sept 1998), lot 1686.