Auction 191-195

1863: 10 c. blue on bluish wove paper, the extraordinary block of 53 stamps, being the entire sheet less the upper row of seven stamps, including the stamps placed sideways, alternating columns with Types I and II (with stop after '10' - 27 examples) and Type III (without stop after '10). The sheet with 3 mm margin at right and 9 mm margin at base, with a few insignificant creases and a minor scissor cut of no importance at base, of vivid fresh colour and large part original gum with some stamps unmounted. The largest recorded multiple of the 1863 issue and one of the major pieces of all South American philately.rnProvenance: Collection Newbury; Wickersham (March 1968), lot 116; Hubbard (Nov 1984), lot 187.191: COLOMBIA & SCADTA, incl. Dr. Hugo Goeggel Collection + Mexico