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Sale 316
The Aristocrat Collection
of First Day Covers and Earliest Documented Usages
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Lot 187 |
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1907 Jamestown set complete (328-330), singles tied on cover by "Washington D.C. May 8 1907" machine cancellation on cover addressed to Mr. Milton Whitney Jr., an early A.P.S. member in Takoma Park, D.C., "Washington, D.C. May 8 1907" handstamped duplex also ties 5¢; 1¢ straight edge, Very Fine.
Estimate 20,000 - 30,000
THE UNIQUE EARLIEST DOCUMENTED USAGE OF THE 5¢ JAMESTOWN.
Expertization: 2000 P.F. Certificate.
There are no recorded first day covers bearing the 5¢ Jamestown because it was not issued until after the 1¢ and 2¢ values. The first day for the 1¢ and 2¢ values is April 26, and the Jamestown issue first day covers are the rarest of all Commemorative FDcs. According to the article by Henry Scheuer in First Days, May-June 1976, "1907 Jamestown Commemorative Series - Part I", he cites a government publication that lists the first printing of the 5¢ value on April 27, 1907 and first day sale as May 8, 1907. It is therefore possible that this is in fact the only recorded first day cover of the 5¢ Jamestown.
This cover has never been offered on the public market. It was found in 2000 by Arnold Selengut while looking for a non-first day cover. The previous earliest reported usage of the 5¢ Jamestown was May 9, 1907 (one reported) and May 10, of which four covers are reported used this day (one of these sold for $17,600 in a 1997 James T. McCusker auction).
Featured in Front page article, "New earliest use found for 5-cent Jamestown", Stamp Collector, 14 Aug. 2000.
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