Lot 2589
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1908, 2¢ carmine, vertical imperf coil error, foreign entry of the 1¢ Franklin (344V Var.), pair with the bottom stamp showing the faint, mostly eradicated earlier transfer of the 1¢ design. Rich color. Fine. An attractive example of this rare and little known variety, listed but not priced used.
Scott $1,250 for mint
The 2¢ stamp of 1908-1910 with the foreign entry of the 1¢ design, is one of the most interesting of the few major 20th century Plate varieties. Max Johl, in his monumental work The United States Postage Stamps of the 20th Century, offers the following likely explanation of this variety: "It seems that the transfer man, in making up Plate no. 5299, made an erroneous entry with a one cent relief, discovered his error, and eradicated it as best he could and then transferred the proper two cent relief in the same position leaving, however, sufficient lines of the one cent entry so as to produce a most interesting variety. This occurred in the upper left pane and is the fourth stamp under the plate number "5299". This variety is therefore a double entry similar to the 5¢ error of 1916 but in this case the wrong entry came first rather than last.
That this variety is exceedingly rare, and very seldom offered is due to two factors: the incorrect entry occurred in only one of the approximately 100,000 possible positions on the various plates used to print these stamps; the variety is not as readily noticeable at first glance as the case with the 5c error (though still quite apparent to the naked eye) and, in fact, was not conclusively identified for many years after the stamp was discovered.
According to Wagner only two used examples of the imperf version of this variety have been discovered. This example which was the first discovered, and another with a 1933 cancel.
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