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1843 
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Mexico, Mulitas Issue Officials Collection, 1895-1900, mounted on exhibit pages formed from a gold medal grand winner exhibit, includes 33 (all different) unused stamps and 1 used + 2 rare covers/wrappers, off-cover stamps are in choice condition comprising all the different watermarks and almost all of the basic 39 stamps listed in Scott ($3,294), one has a "Muestra" overprint with a MEPSI cert (O39S, $375), O48 also has a MEPSI cert ($225), 2 postal history items are, cover from the National Observatory in Tacubaya with 2c and a wrapper to France with a pair of 1c, experts in this issue think there are less than 50 items of postal history with official Mulitas stamps, most are large consular envelopes, 2 items in the collection are more scarce, official overprinted stamps in this period are only known on official correspondence going abroad. Scott Nos. O10-O48 Estimate $1,500 - 2,000.
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