1854, 1st printing, 4 a. blue and red, horizontal pair, nice fresh colour and full to large margins, used with diamond of bars and faint adjacent Bombay c.d.s. to reverse of small envelope with frontside boxed "INDIA PAID", to Cairo, Egypt. Very fine. Pairs of the 1st printing on entire are extremely rare, in combination with the exotic destination a great rarity. Signed Enzo Diena with certificate (1983)
