Auction 321 - 332 Europe & Overseas Asia / Africa, Europe A –Z, Collections & Accumulations - Day 4

1848: POST PAID 1 d. orange-vermilion, horizontal pair, positions 2-3 on the sheet of 12 subjects, used on cover from Souillac to Port Louis, dated 19 March 1855, tied by double circle "3" in black, with framed "TOO LATE" alongside the Souillac datestamp, beautiful deep colour and crisp impression, cut into top left otherwise good margins all round, two vertical filing creases and some small rubs to envelope, otherwise fine and very rare. One of just two covers in the Kanai sale which were described as "1 d. early impression", there being no covers known with the earliest.rnProvenance: Collection Arthur Hind, Harmers, 4 April 1934, lot 1464; Collection Maurice Burrus, Robson Lowe, 1 October 1963, lot 135; Collection Hiroyuki Kanai, David Feldman, 3 November 1993, lot 35.