Lot
2390 (
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Uruguay, 1858, 240c pale red, bottom margin block of 6 with blank cliché at bottom center, from position 23 in the transfer block of 30 subjects, transfer types 16-17-18 / 22-24, sheet positions 196-197-198 / 202-203-204, wide to large margins on three sides with huge sheet margin at bottom, part of right-hand tablets of two adhesives at right missing and repaired and small thin in bottom margin, in no way detracting from this, without gum, still Very Fine, the only multiple recorded from the bottom right corner of the sheet which includes part of the third and four horizontal rows from the transfer block of 30 that were used at base out of the normal sequence instead of the first and second rows; with 1981 F. Paulos and 2008 C. Rocha certificates. Scott No. 6e $5,000+.
THE UNQIUE MARGINAL BLOCK OF THE 1858 240C SUN ISSUE WITH BLANK CLICHÉ SETENANT - ONE OF THE CLASSIC RARITIES OF URUGUAY.
Sheets of 24 subjects (including seven black spaces) in 17 horizontal rows of 12 were printed, composed of a transfer block of 30 subjects; the bottom two rows used the top four rows of a transfer block.