1858: Medio (½) peso rose-red, Type C, a fine used example of
excellent colour with enormous margins on three sides and ample
margin at
1858: Medio (½) peso rose-red, Type C, a fine used example of
excellent colour with enormous margins on three sides and ample
margin at base, used on 13 July 1858 entire letter from Lima to
José Maria Peña in Arequipa, tied by dotted LIMA handstamp in
black. The entire with minor aging of no significance with very few
covers recorded: Percy Bargholtz census #Db3. Signed Holcombe Scott
= $ 4'750 off cover. Provenance: Charlotte Hassel, Basel, circa
1950; Harmer Rooke, London, May 1963, lot 63; Dr. Norman Hubbard -
exhibited at Ameripex, New York 1986; collection Dr. Norman
Hubbard, Siegel, New York, 6 June 2008, lot 270