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Sale 353
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Stamps, Collections and Accumulations
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Lot 69 |
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1851, 1¢ blue, type Ib (5A), position 9R1E. Bright color with large margins except barely touching ball ornaments at bottom, lightened pen cancel. Accompanying certificate mentions "tiny scuffs at top above ‘P’ of ‘POSTAGE’" (nearly invisible). Fresh and otherwise Very Fine. A lovely example of the rare 1¢ type Ib.
Scott $4,500
Expertization: with 1995 P.S.E. certificate.
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Lot 70 |
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1851, 1¢ blue, type III (8), position 55L4. Remarkably bright and fresh, especially deep color, with large, perfectly balanced margins and a light town cancel. Extremely Fine and choice.
Scott $2,250
A LOVELY EXAMPLE OF THE IMPERFORATE TYPE III, WHICH IS QUITE SCARCE IN THIS GEM USED CONDITION.
Expertization: with 1988 P.F. certificate.
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Lot 71 |
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1851, 1¢ blue, type IIIa (8A), large margins except barely touching at bottom, neat town cancel. Fresh and nearly Very Fine.
Scott $900
Expertization: with 1988 P.F. certificate.
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Lot 72 |
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1852, 1¢ blue, type IV (9), bottom sheet margin single, position 93R1L. Ample to large margins all around except barely touching at top. Unused without gum. Incredibly Very Fine.
Scott $300
Expertization: with photocopy of 1984 P.F. certificate for a strip of 3.
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Lot 73 |
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1851, 3¢ orange brown, type I (10), position 70L1E with interpane margin at right and large margins left & bottom just in at top, rich, early color; cancelled by red grid on cover to Redding Ct. matching red Jul 1 Amenia, N.Y. cds, which makes this, in all probability, a First Day cover; clean and Very Fine. (Catalogue value as a first day cover $12,500). Sold on its own merits.
Expertization: with 2002 A.P.S. certificate specifying the date of use as 7/1/(1851).
There is no indication of year date anywhere on the cover, but the fact that the stamp is from the early state of plate 1 apparently was sufficient evidence for the A.P.S. to render its ruling. The cover is accompanied by a letter from the late Wilson Hulme stating that he is quite convinced it is a first day cover, and he was sorry he had not been aware of this piece, or he would have included it in his then about to be published article on the first day covers of the 3¢ 1851 issue.
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Lot 74 |
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1852, 3¢ dull red, type I, with private "sawtooth" perforations (11), position 69L6, with clear perforations on left and right sides measuring about 10½; tied by Philadelphia cds on cover to Roadstown N.J. with lovely blue cameo-style merchant's corner card featuring a three-car train; fresh and clean, top flap nearly separated and partly missing, but otherwise a gorgeous cover.
Estimate 2,000 - 3,000
Expertization: with 2002 A.P.S. certificate noting "‘sawtooth’ separations of unknown origin", a letter from the late Wilson Hulme stating in his opinion it is genuine also accompanies.
This is quite possibly the same perforation as that noted by Wilson Hulme as used from Kensington Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia.
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Lot 75 |
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1856, 5¢ red brown (12), large to huge margins with a light red town cancel, scissor cuts in margins. Very Fine.
Scott $850
Expertization: with 1988 P.F. certificate.
Certificate notes "knife slices in the top and right margins", apparently the remnants of having removed the stamp from the sheet with a dull blade. Both could easily be trimmed away without much affect.
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Lot 76 |
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1855, 10¢ green, type I (13), large margins and light red town cancel. Lightened pen cancel, tiny corner crease at upper right. Very Fine appearance with incredible eye appeal.
Scott $1,000
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Lot 77 |
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1855, 10¢ green, type IV (16), position 86L1. recut at top only. Bright and fresh with ample to mostly large margins and a clear red New-York town cancel. Very Fine, pretty stamp.
Scott $1,835
Expertization: with 1979 P.F. certificate.
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Lot 78 |
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1851, 12¢ black, diagonal bisect (17a), tied by perfectly struck "STEAM/ SHIP" handstamp on undated folded cover to Fishkill N.Y. with incomplete strike boxed "VIA NICARAGUA/ AHEAD OF THE MAILS"; bisect with small faults. Fine.
Scott $5,780
Expertization: signed Calves, with 2013 P.F. certificate.
Though cut diagonally, it is not the typical corner-to-corner bisect, but closer to a vertical cut, which we do not believe exists.
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