Public Auction #438

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COVER ACCUMULATIONS — Italy
	Lot	Condition	Description	Value/Bidding
	501		Italy cover assortment in a pizza-size box. Consists of seventeen used Venetian AQ sheets from the first form of postal stationery used anywhere in the world. Produced from 1608-1797 using different postmaster names for differentiation of dates. Includes smiling lion, female, lion, retouches, and worn widen die varieties. Sheets have stains and some small tears from age or storage. Also entails fourteen stampless covers from 1779 to 1872 and a Socialist Republic 1945 cover mailed two days after the liberation of Pavia by the US Army.	Cat. Value: S.B. 270.00 Price Realized: $190.00