Lot 96
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St. Louis, Mo., 1846, 5¢ and 10¢ black on gray lilac se-tenant horizontal pair (11X4, 11X5), both type III, position 5-6, large perfectly balanced margins, cancelled solely by a light strike of a red MAR 15 St. Louis datestamp, 5¢ with faint corner crease. Still Extremely Fine.
Scott $21,500
THE ONLY ONE OF THE SIX SE-TENANT MULTIPLES TO BE CANCELLED SOLELY BY THE RED TOWN POSTMARK.
Expertization: signed W.H.C. (Colson), 2003 P.F. Certificate.
Provenance: Lapham plating
There are a total of six se-tenant multiples of the Bears: the above pair; and the following four lots containing the L shaped "block" of three of the 5¢/10¢; the vertical strip of three containing two 20¢ and a 5¢; the off-cover pair of the 10¢/20¢ and the pair of the 10¢/20¢ on cover. Mrs. Faiman was never able to obtain the sixth item, the L shaped "block" of four of the 5¢/10¢. This last piece was sold in the 2001 Rarity Sale by Robert A. Siegel Auctions.
A note about prices is in order. The catalog values in Scott often do not change for years if no transactions take place. As the Faiman Collection has been off the market for many years, catalog values for the se-tenant items, in particular, are hopelessly outdated and do not reflect current market conditions.
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| Realized $67,500 |
