3340 | Spain

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53, 54. 1862. 12 red cuartos and 19 brown cuartos. Certificate from LAS PALMAS (CANARY ISLANDS) to LYON (FRANCE). On the front: certificate number, crosses in the corners, various endorsements; on the reverse: ‘received’ (with a surplus of 7 cuartos). A MAGNIFICENT AND EXTRAORDINARILY RARE CERTIFICATE CIRCULATED IN THE CANARY ISLANDS FEATURING THE 19 CUARTOS DENOMINATION; THE ONLY KNOWN USE OF THE 19 CUARTOS ON A LETTER IN THE ISLANDS. WITHOUT A DOUBT, THIS IS THE SECOND MOST IMPORTANT ITEM IN CANARY ISLANDS PHILATELY. THIS ITEM WAS EXHIBITED AT THE 2015 BI-ANNUAL MEETING HELD IN MONACO, WHERE THE MOST IMPORTANT ITEMS IN WORLD PHILATELY ARE DISPLAYED; THIS EXCEPTIONAL ISSUE WAS ALSO PRESENTED IN NEW YORK IN 2016. Cert. COMEX. Ex-Láiz and R. Yardley Collection (1944) (Robert Blake Yardley was a British lawyer and philatelist who signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1921; a member of the Yardley family, soap manufacturers, his world collection was auctioned by H.R. Harmer over a period of sixteen days in 1944–45, and the item has not been offered for sale in Spain since then) (photographed in the specialist catalogue published by Edifil).