COLOMBIA, Correo Semanal del Dorado 1868, Local carrier Tete-Beche block RARITY

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COLOMBIA, Correo Semanal del Dorado 1868, Local first private carrier RARE XXXXX,  in VF UNUSED condition on thick paper. TETE-BECHE block of 4.
EX Carlos Valenzuela and Ray Ireson.
This particular
block of 4
comes from a block of four is
described
in Bortfeld, Private Mail Carriers of Colombia on page 62.
Correo Semanal del Dorado 1868/70. A rarely seen offer of this elusive issue described in Bortfeld, Private Mail Carriers of Colombia on pages 59-68. There are only about ten covers known from this private mail carrier.
It was believed that in the Siecha Lake (in the Guasca municipality of the Cundinamarca Department), a difficult to access lagoon at an altitude of more than 3,000 metres, the Muisca people had hidden from the Spaniards the legendary El Dorado treasure. A Colombian citizen, Enrique Urdaneta partnered with the English engineer George Crowther and acquired in 1866 the shares that enabled them to drain the lake. As communication was difficult due to geographical reasons, a private carrier service was established in 1868. This first Colombian private carrier provided a weekly mail service of El Dorado, which transported mail from the Siecha lagoon to Bogota, which lasted to 1870. Adhesives were created, a cliché was cut, the value of postage stamps was set to 1 real (10 centavos de peso) and printed on various available papers. There are only about ten covers known.
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