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Sale 287
United States Stamps and Postal History
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Lot 1929 |
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Airmail Semi-Official, 1877, 5¢ Buffalo Balloon (CL1 var.), impression in ultramarine on vertically laid paper. F.-V.F. believed to be from a trial printing of which only 14 are said to exist.
Estimate 1,000 - 1,500
Provenance: Schoendorf
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Lot 1930 |
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Airmail Semi-Official, 1877, 5¢ Buffalo Balloon (CL1), type II, large margins and deep color. Tiny thin in left margin. Otherwise Very Fine.
Scott $7,500
Expertization: signed Bloch.
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Lot 1931 |
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Airmail Semi-Official, 1877, 5¢ Buffalo Balloon, tête-bêche (CL1a), types I and II, 7mm spacing, unused, wide margins all around, two distinctly different shades with the type I being the lighter of the two. Couple trivial flaws. Very Fine appearance. This pair is figure 20 in Schoendorf's The Buffalo Balloon Mail 1873-1877.
Scott $21,500
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Lot 1932 |
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Airmail Semi-Official, 1877, 5¢ Buffalo Balloon, tête-bêche (CL1a), types I and II, 8mm spacing, unused with large margins, two different shades, the lighter of the two being type I. Each stamp with small thin. This pair is figure 18 in Schoendorf's The Buffalo Balloon Mail 1873-1877.
Scott $21,500
Expertization: 1978 P.F. Certificate: "slight defects".
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