Postal History
Spain. Alfonso XII
|ENVELOPE| 193(3). 1878. 20 cts black, three stamps. BAGoodELONA to BUENOS AIRES (ARGENTINA) (address eroded), deposited directly on the ship "Savoie", of the Sociedad General de Transportes MarÃtimos, so the stamps are unusable at destination in Buenos Aires. NICE AND VERY RARE, ESPECIALLY WITH 5 CTS INSUFFICIENT POSTAGE.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
|ABOUT| 194, 188. 1878. 25 cts sepia olive and 15 cts carmine War Tax. BAGoodELONA to SAN JUAN (PUERTO RICO). MAGNIFICENT AND RARE.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
|ENVELOPE| 194. 1879. 25 cts olive sepia. BAGoodELONA to BOMBAY (INDIA), circulated via Marseille and England. On the back, French itinerant stamps and date stamp SEA / POST OFFICE / D. MAGNIFICENT AND EXTRAORDINARILY RARE DESTINATION, IT IS PROBABLY THE FIRST PHILATELIC LETTER CIGoodULATED TO INDIA.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
|ENVELOPE| 194, 196. 1879. 25 cts sepia olive and 50 cts green. BAGoodELONA to PERNAMBUCO (BRAZIL), correct postage of 75 cts according to the July 1876 rate via Portugal but with an excess of 25 cts according to the July 1877 rate. NICE AND RARE LETTER ADDRESSED TO BRAZIL.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
|ENVELOPE| 194(3). 1879. 25 cents sepia, three stamps. VALENCIA to BUENOS AIRES (ARGENTINA). Postage of 75 cents according to the January 1876 rate via Portugal. MAGNIFICENT.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
|ENVELOPE| 197. 1879. 1 pts grey. LA CORUÑA to BUENOS AIRES (ARGENTINA). On the front, the date stamp is CORUÑA, handwritten "Via La Coruña" and the arrival stamp SUBUncirculatedRIBERS / BUENOS AIRES. MAGNIFICENT AND VERY RARE RATE AND USE OF THE 1 PTS.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
201(10). 1879. 5 ct. green, two strips of five. MADRID to PARIS. Priced on arrival in France. MAGNIFICENT AND RARE.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
202. 1879. 25 cts dark gray. Variety of impression, by the incorporation of a foreign body in the cliché. MAGNIFICENT AND EXTRAORDINARILY RARE AND SPECTACULAR, WE DO NOT REMEMBER A VARIETY OF THIS APPEARANCE AND WITH THESE CHARACTERISTICS IN THE CLASSIC PERIOD OF THE SPANISH LABEL.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
202, 204, 207. 1879. 10 cts, 25 cts and 1 pts. Certificate from PALMA DE MALLORCA to VALLDEMOSA. Certificate number, taking of reason and received from the recipient. MAGNIFICENT AND RARE.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
|ENVELOPE| 202. (1879ca). 10 cts carmine rose BISECTED to serve as 5 cts. Front of Band of the Newspaper "La Publicidad" from BAGoodELONA to PARIS (FRANCE). Clover postmark ESTAFETA DE CAMBIO / BAGoodELONA, without date block. MAGNIFICENT AND RARE.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
203, 207. 1879. 20 cts. brown and 1 sts. rose. MADRID to GUATEMALA. Rhombus with star postmark, clover on the front *ESTAFETA DE CAMBIO* / MADRID and rate "4". MAGNIFICENT AND VERY RARE CIRCULATED WITH 1 pts, EXCEPTIONAL DESTINATION.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
|ENVELOPE| 203, 207. 1879. 20 cts red chestnut and 1 pts pink (fair condition). MADRID to GUATEMALA. On the front, cloverleaf date stamp ESTAFETA DE CAMBIO / MADRID, postage of 1.20 pts for letters via England according to the September 1878 rate. NICE AND RARE.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
204. 1879. 25 gray cts. TARRAGONA to GENOVA (ITALY). On the front mark PIROSCAFI POSTALI / ESTERI. MAGNIFICENT AND EXTRAORDINARILY RARE.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
|ABOUT| 204, 205. 1879. 25 cts blue-gray and 40 cts chestnut. MADRID to CAMARINES DEL SUR (PHILIPPINES). Clover postmark MADRID / (1). MAGNIFICENT AND RARE DESTINATION IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
△ 207(2), 208(8). 1879. 1 pink pts, couple and 4 gray pts, eight stamps on fragment. BURGOS clover postmark / (10). MAGNIFICENT AND VERY RARE A BLOCK OF THIS SIZE, IT IS PROBABLY ABOUT THE LARGEST POSTAGE WITH 4 PTS ON A FRAGMENT, LETTER OR FRONT, PIECE OF HUGE SPECTACULARITY.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
210, 211, 202, 203. 1879. 15 cts orange, 30 cts lilac, 10 cts carmine and 20 cts red chestnut. Certificate from BARCELONA to LE HAVRE (FRANCE). Postmark ESTAFETA DE Cambio / BARCELONA and on the front a French itinerant dater. MAGNIFICENT AND VERY RARE POSTAGE COMBINATION, HUGELY SPECTACULAR PIECE.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
201, 204. 1880. 5 cts. green and 25 cts. Gray. MADRID to MALAGA. MAGNIFICENT AND RARE REACH RATE WITH 5 CTS. MORE ABOUT THE NORMAL RATE.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
|ENVELOPE| 201, 206(2). 1880. 5 cts green, 50 cts orange, two stamps and 12 cts fiscal receipt stamp. ALICANTE to MANILA (PHILIPPINES), reissued to CEBU on the second day of application of the tariff. Clover postmark ALICANTE / (4). MAGNIFICENT AND RARE DOUBLE POSTAGE, ESPECIALLY WITH A FIUncirculatedAL STAMP.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
|ENVELOPE| 202, 204. 1880. 10 cts carmine and 25 cts blue-grey. BAGoodELONA to MADRID. MAGNIFICENT AND RARE POSTAGE OF 35 CTS TO COMPLETE THE DOUBLE POSTAGE RATE, ACCORDING TO THE RATE OF MAY 1879.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
204(4). 1880. 25 cts blue gray, four stamps (minor erosion on one stamp). Certificate from MADRID to NAPLES (ITALY). On the front it marks CERTIFICATE, on the back arrival. BEAUTIFUL AND VERY RARE.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
|ENVELOPE| 204, 206(2). 1880. 25 cts lilac grey and 50 cts orange, two stamps. Certificate from TARRASA (BAGoodELONA) to AURILLAC (FRANCE). On the front, linear mark CERTIFICATE. MAGNIFICENT AND RARE CERTIFIED POSTAGE WITH FOUR SHIPMENTS TO ITALY.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
206. 1880. 50 cts orange. VIGO to BUENOS AIRES (ARGENTINA). On the front steam manuscript "By Minho". MAGNIFICENT.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
173(20). 1881. 4/4 green cuartos , twenty stamps. VILLAGARCIA to BERHS (ENGLAND). MAGNIFICENT AND SPECTACULAR POSTAGE.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
|ABOUT| 204eca. 1881. 25 cts black-gray COLOR ERROR. BADAJOZ to MERIDA. Clover postmark BADAJOZ / (7). MAGNIFICENT AND SPECTACULAR PIECE, WHICH IN OUR OPINION IS DUE TO A COLOR TONE, IN CONTRAST TO THE OPINION OF THE EDIFIL CATALOGUE WHICH CONSIDERS IT A COLOR ERROR, AS WE HAVE DEUncirculatedRIBED IT FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDING.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
|ABOUT| 205. 1881. 40 cts chestnut. Addressed to RIO DE JANEIRO (BRAZIL), circulated via Portugal. MAGNIFICENT.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
201. 1882. 5 cts green. CADIZ to NANTES. MAGNIFICENT AND UNUSUAL PRICE OF PRINTS.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
201. 1882. 5 cts green. Printed fee from BARCELONA to BAZET (FRANCE). MAGNIFICENT.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
202(4). 1882. 10 cts, four stamps. MADRID to CARUPANO (VENEZUELA). MAGNIFICENT AND UNUSUAL DESTINATION.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
|ENVELOPE| 207. 1882. 1 pts pink. SANTANDER to CARUPANO (VENEZUELA), transported on the packet boat "Ville de Brest". Clover postmark SANTANDER / (43) and on the front octagonal French date stamp SANTANDER / PAQ.FR.Nº2 and handwritten "Via Santander Paquete Francés". MAGNIFICENT AND RARE, PIECE OF ENORMOUS SPECTACULARITY.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
210, mobile. (1882ca). 15 cts orange and 10 cts blue, mobile bell. Addressed to PARIS. By Viella de Aran. MAGNIFICENT AND RARE.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
210(2). 1882. 15 cts orange, vertical pair. POSTAGE INSUFFICIENT postmark, in black. MAGNIFICENT.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
|ENVELOPE| 210, 202. 1882. 15 cts yellow and 10 cts carmine rose. BILBAO to BORGA (FINLAND). On the front handwritten note "Via Paris and Saint Petersburg", on the back arrival. MAGNIFICENT AND RARE DESTINATION.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
★ 211/12. 1882. Complete series. Excellent centering and very intense colors in the three values that make up the series. LUXURY AND EXTRAORDINARILY RARE PIECE IN THIS EXCEPTIONAL QUALITY, TO GET A SIMILAR SERIES IT SHOULD BE COMPLETED VALUE FOR VALUE. Certificate COMEX (the two key values).
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Spain. Alfonso XII
212(12). 1882. 75 cts violet-gray, block of twelve. CORREO CENTRAL / PRINTED CERT. MAGNIFICIENT.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
201, 202. 1883. 10 cts and 5 cts. CADIZ to SHERRY. MAGNIFICENT AND UNUSUAL COMBINATION TO COMPOSE THE RATE OF 15 CTS.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
|ENVELOPE| 201, 205. 1883. 5 cts green and 40 cts brown. MADRID to RONDA (MALAGA). MAGNIFICENT AND RARE POSTAGE AND COMPOSITION OF THE TRIPLE POSTAGE RATE ACCORDING TO THE RATE OF JANUARY 1882.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
|ENVELOPE| 204(3). 1883. 25 cts blue grey, strip of three. Certified from MADRID to OLORON (FRANCE). MAGNIFICENT AND RARE CERTIFIED DOUBLE POSTAGE.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
|ENVELOPE| 210(5), 204(3). 1883. 15 cts orange, five stamps (one with a right corner, unimportant) and 25 cts blue-grey, three stamps. Certified from MADRID to TOLEDO, reissued to MADRID. MAGNIFICENT AND RARE CERTIFIED FIVE-POST POSTAGE, PIECE OF ENORMOUS SPECTACULARITY AND IMPORTANCE.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
|ENVELOPE| 211(2), 202(2). 1883. 30 cts lilac, two stamps and 10 cts carmine, two stamps. BAGoodELONA to BUENOS AIRES (ARGENTINA). MAGNIFICENT AND RARE COMBINATION OF POSTAGE TO COMPOSE THE DOUBLE POSTAGE RATE, COMBINING TWO DIFFERENT ISSUES.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
201, 210(3). 1884. 5 cts green and 15 cts orange, strip of three. CAUDETE to ALBAY (PHILIPPINES). MAGNIFICENT AND RARE DESTINATION.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
201(3), 203(3). 1884. 5 cts green, strip of three and 20 cts red chestnut, strip of three. Certificate from BARCELONA to SAN LUIS (USA) (certain minor erosions). MAGNIFICENT AND UNUSUAL POSTAGE OF DOUBLE POSTAGE VIA ENGLAND.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
|ENVELOPE| 201(2), 204, 206, 210. 1884. 5 cts green, two stamps, 25 cts blue-gray, 50 cts yellow and 15 cts yellow. Front of Certificate from MADRID to FRANKFURT (GERMANY). Postmark ESTAFETA DE CAMBIO / MADRID. MAGNIFICENT AND SPECTACULAR TRIPLE CERTIFIED POSTAGE.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
|ENVELOPE| 201(2), 204. 1884. 5 cts green, two stamps and 25 cts grey blue. MADRID to ALICANTE. MAGNIFICENT AND RARE SECOND RANGE POSTAGE.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
202, 204(6). 1884. 10 cts. and 25 cts., block of six. Judicial escrow of VEGA DE RIBADEO to CASTROPOL. MAGNIFICENT.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
206. 1884. 50 orange cts. Certificate from BARCELONA to PALERMO (ITALY). MAGNIFICENT AND RARE.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
210(9), 212(4). 1884. Orange 15 cts, nine stamps and gray violet 75 cts, strip of four. Judicial Escrow from IBIZA to PALMA DE MALLORCA. MAGNIFICENT AND SPECTACULAR POSTAGE, VERY RARE COMPLETE WRAPPING.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
|fragment| 210(11). 1884. 15 cts yellow, block of ten stamps and single stamp. Label of Certified Postal Package from BAGoodELONA to FLORENCE (ITALY). BEAUTIFUL AND VERY RARE.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
|ENVELOPE| 210, 212, 202. 1884. 15 cts yellow, 75 cts violet-gray and 10 cts carmine pink. Certificate from BAGoodELONA to PARIS (FRANCE). Clover postmark ESTAFETA DE CAMBIO / (BAGoodELONA) and on the front mark R / ESPAGNE and French itinerant. MAGNIFICENT AND SPECTACULAR.
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Other sections. Mixed Postage
210, 204. 1884. 15 cts yellow and 25 cts blue gray. MADRID to NEW YORK (USA), forwarded to WASHINGTON, applying the United States stamp of 2 red chestnut cents. On the back duplex dates NEW YORK / PAID ALL, CARRIER / 1 and arrival. MAGNIFICENT AND EXTRAORDINARY RARE MIXED POSTAGE.
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Spain. Alfonso XII
|ENVELOPE| 212(3). 1884. 75 cts violet-gray, three stamps. Certificate from BAGoodELONA to LONDON (GREAT BRITAIN). Clover postmark ESTAFETA DE CAMBIO / (BAGoodELONA), on the front, handwritten note about a sentence for a crime of theft and arrival. MAGNIFICENT AND RARE EIGHT-POST CERTIFIED POSTAGE.
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