USED TETE-BECHE PAIR
5k Blue, vertical TETE-BECHE pair, good to large margins all around, cancelled by low-boxed TAMMERFORS 1857 datestamp, some faults mainly at top including thin and tears, some manuscript annotations, cert. Ossa
Only 7 used tete-beche pairs of the small pearls 5k issue are recorded.
N°XV "Encyclopedia of Rare and Famous Stamps" by L & N Williams
Provenance: Leo Linder
Finland 1856-59 5 Kopek Small Pearls |