Special Jubilee Auction #203 - Euro (€)

PERU

1858 First issue 1/2 peso buff diagonal bisect used as 4 dineros on cover to Arequipa, tied by oval PUNO "ring" cancel in black, dated inside "Puno DIC 16, 1859", small corner fault on stamp

A major rarity with only two bisect covers known (the other is also from Puno, dated Jul 11 1860 which sold for CHF27'000 in Corinphila in 1994)

Provenance: Hubbard

Expertise: signed Bloch and Calves, cert. Moorhouse (2010)

Estimate: ? 15'000 - ? 20'000