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lot # 376 - Colombia air post

Tuesday Apr 29, 2014 09:00 to Wednesday Apr 30, 2014 12:00 America/New_York
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Apr 29, 08:00 BST

1919 First Experimental Air Mail Flight, Barranquilla to Puerto Colombia to Barranquilla by American aviator William Knox Martin, June 18, 1919. On this occasion, 200 copies of 2centavo stamps were overprinted at Barranquilla Printing Office. This was executed in horizontal strips of ten, which were severed with a guillotine knife, causing horizontal perforations to have a "cut" appearance. Of the total stamps issued, 160 were used on covers on the special flight. An unused single, full original gum, well centered, slight overall toning as always, intact perforations on all sides, v.f., signed Herbert Bloch etc. (note in Scott's "values are for faulty stamps") -
Estimate price: $1800-2000

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