Ended on Wednesday, 20 February 2019 at 02:30.

San Marino - Ganzsachen: 1894, 5 Lira Registered Envelope with multi-colored frank. H&G # B1, USED J

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Start of the sale:
Friday, 1 February 2019 at 07:40
Item n°710694365
Sale ends:
Wednesday, 20 February 2019 at 02:30
Lot:
#20050
Catalogue:
43rd Christoph Gärtner Auction - February 20th, 2019 - Europe, Germany, Picture Postcards

1894, 5 Lira Registered Envelope with multi-colored frank. H&G # B1, USED Jubilee Envelope. This 5 lira registered envelope has the physically largest and most beautiful stationery frank in the world. In addition, this example was USED with the excessively RARE HAND-MANUSCRIPT REGISTRATION NUMBER (not with the later printed numbers) and was struck with possible the earliest usage date for the envelope.
This 5 lira franking is a very high franking - because these envelopes were made to carry at least 500 Lira worth of the San Marino Jubilee Stamp Issue - so correctly used, they could only be sent to stamp dealers.
This cover was send to Scott Stamp & Coin Company, New York and has perhaps the lowest registration number known, #10. It was used on October 5, 1894, sure from the first group to be send (a similar example, #12 was sent on the same day).
Regular used envelopes with printed registration numbers are listed in the catalogs between 2500 € and 3000 €, this m/s registration number is from greater rarity and are not priced in Italian catalogs.
Value Add Taxes (19%) will be added to the hammer price and the buyers premium.

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Christoph Gärtner made his hobby into his profession. He started in 1984 and within two decades the Gärtner GmbH developed into a world leading mail order house for postal stationery and became a specialist for thematics and postal history.
In april 2005 the idea to build a place where collectors, customers and investors from all over the world could meet, was realized.
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San Marino - Ganzsachen: 1894, 5 Lira Registered Envelope with multi-colored frank. H&G # B1, USED J

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