Lot no. 423

1880, Victoria 1d. red-brown tied by superb strike of "E88" obliterator to printed matter to Genoa with two adjacent strikes of cds. "COLON DE 21 80", slightly unfresh, covers with the E88 obliterator are surprisingly rare and this is to our knowledge to only one sent to Italy, signed Calves and certificate Moorhouse (2007) Provenance: "The Glassco Collection" (Robson Lowe, 1969)