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

Recess by Narciso Desmadryl from Perkins Bacon Plates 1855 (Feb): 5 c. reddish brown, a fine horizontal pair and top marginal single example with ample to large margins all round, paying the ½ ounce rate + Sea Postage of 5 centavos on August 1855 cover from Copiapo to Valparaiso tied by light strikes of target handstamps in black. A fresh and fine cover. Cert. RPSL (1975).rnrnProvenance: Corinphila sale 90, Oct 1994, lot 6328.rn 
Catalogue 228: CHILE - The Colon Issues