FindYourStampsValue.com hurries to share the most exciting auction news with our readers. This piece of info concerns Brazil’s Inclinados stamps issued in 1844 that were recently auctioned by Spink and Son’s.
The auction took place in the end of the previous year. One of the stars of this sale was the largest multiple containing both “Type I” and “Type II” varieties of the 1845 90-reis stamp. The lot brought the record price - $125,000.
The “Inclinados”—or “Slanted Numerals”—were Brazil’s second issue, which followed the Bull’s Eye stamps and used Bull’s Eye paper. According to auctioneers, these are “very rare as this paper was used for a short period and few items have survived.”
1845 90r black multiply is a key postal history rarity for the advanced collection. It is the largest, a unique and major rarity of Brazilian philately. Described by auctioneers as an “extraordinary block of fifteen on greyish paper”, it is considered that only three multiplies featuring type II in combination with type I in the bottom two horizontal rows exist today. Although one of the stamps is slightly cut into at top, the lot managed to fetch $125,000.
