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

Recess by Narciso Demadryl from Perkins Bacon Plates 1854 (Jan-Feb): 5 c. deep reddish-brown, a horizontal pair with close to ample margins all round, in combination with Desmadryl September 1854 10 c. blue on bluish, single and horizontal strip of four, margins touched in places but of excellent impression and colour, used on delightful 1855 cover from Santiago to Valparaiso. SANTIAGO despatch cds in red (Jan 4) also on obverse of a delightful and extremely rare cover. Cert. BPA (1992).rnrnProvenance: Collection Albert Quast, Harmer Rooke, June 1963, lot 344; Collection Gerhard Blank, RL, Dec 1996, lot 1095.
Catalogue 228: CHILE - The Colon Issues