365 / September 2017

LECCO: Mute cancellation 11 bars, used on small piece, fine and scarce, sign. Colla with certificate (2017)

MILANO: Mute cogwheel cancel, central strike on 45 c. blue, type I, tiny marginal scrub not affecting the design, otherwise very fine, sign. Colla with certificate (2017)

VERONA: Cogwheel cancellation on 15 c. orange-red, type 1, used on small piece, fine and scarce, sign. Colla with certificate (2017)

1852, 5 c. on green with good margins, tied by blue bars to entire registered letter with adjacent fancy "SASSUOLO" and "UFFIZIO POSTALE IN SASSUOLO" to Modena with blue arrival mark on front, very attractive, sign. Colla with certificate (Sassone 1)

1859, Provisional government 15 c. brown with ample to mostly large margins and 5 mm sheet margin at left, tied by blue Modena postmark to small piece, very fine, certificate Colla (2017) (Sassone 13)

1860, Trinacria ½ t. blue, good to large margins and neatly cancelled, very fine, signed Colla with certificate (2017) and Georg Bühler with certificate (1983)

1852, 4 baj. on brown with large margins, showing all 8 frame lines (otto filetti), tied by Senegalia cds. to piece, very fine, sign. Colla with certificate (2017)

1852, 7 baj. on blue, 2 horizontal pairs with clear to large margins, used with light grid on entire letter via France 1860 to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; a fine entire to a rare destination, certificate "Qualtià Bolaffi" (1999)

1852, 7 baj. on blue, vertical pair, good to large margins, and 8 baj. black, tied by grid cancel to folded cover from "ROMA 13.12.58" with boxed "P.D." via Paris to Brussels with arrival mark, minor creasing

1867, Imperforated issue 3 c. on rose-grey, upper left sheet corner with good margins and fresh colour, unused with large part o.g., very fine, sign. Colla with certificate (2010) (Sassone 14)

1818/19, Cavallini, "MANIFESTO CAMERALE" for both issues

1853, 20 c. blue with large to enormous margins, neatly cancelled by scarce central "MOMO 17 GEN. 54", extremely fine, sign. Colla with certificate

1854, 20 c. blue, horizontal pair with good to large margins, cancelled by Turino cds., very fine, sign. Colla with certificate

1855/63, 80 c. olive-yellow (giallo limone bolivastro) with good to large margins, together with 10 c. brown, 20 c. blue and 40 c. rose (all partly touched) tied cds. "GENOVA 22 FEB 60" to lettersheet to Valparaiso, Chile with frontside transit marks of London and Panama; a fine and attractive colour franking to Southamerica with a rare shade of 80 c., sign. Colla with certificate (2015) (Sassone 17Ab etc.)

1851, 1 cr. carmine-violet on bluish, fresh deep colour and good even margins, unused with part original gum, on reverse tiny slight thinning, otherwise very fine; a rare stamp, sign. "G.C" and certificate Colla (Sassone 4c)

1860, Provisional government 40 c. carmine, slightly touched in places, in combination with Sardinia 1855, 20 c. light-blue, tied by cds. of Pistoia to small entire letter 1862 to Dublin, little stained and letter with small fault at bottom, a scarce combination to abroad, sign. Colla with certificate (2017)

80 c. brownish-red (bistro-carnicino) with clear to wide margins and neatly cancelled, very fine, sign. Colla with certificate (2017) (Sassone 22a)

1852/68 ungebrauchte und gestempelte Sammlung mit u.a. Mi.-Nr. 10I gestempelt (Fotoattest Ferchenbauer) und 11 ungebraucht (Fotobefund Puschmann VÖB), teils Beanstandungen

1819/36, Cavallini, kleine Studien-Sammlung mit einigen Originalen und diversen Fälschungen