Sale 283


 
Lot 2028



1851, 1¢ blue, type I (5), position 7R1E, ample to large margins all around except barely in at lower right, tied by "Pittsburgh, Pa. Aug 13" c.d.s. on printed 1852 circular to Harrisonville, Ohio, trivial tiny pre-use margin tear, totally invisible to the naked eye and not mentioned in accompanying P.F Certificate, fresh and Extremely Fine.
Scott $55,000

ONE OF THE FINEST MARGINED OF ALL 7R1ES AND ONE OF THE TWO FINEST OF THE SEVEN RECORDED COVERS WITH SINGLE USAGES.

Expertization: plated and signed by P. Ward, clear 1995 P.F. Certificate.

The overall size of the original 1¢ design was slightly too large to fit 200 subjects onto one plate. Therefore, each position had to have some amount of the design erased (these erasures accounted for the majority of the types). One position, however, was not subjected to any erasure whatsoever, that being the 7th stamp in the top row of the right pane of plate 1 in its early state—7R1E. Of the 1,000 positions on the five plates utilized for the production of the 1¢ imperforate, this is the only position that shows the complete design. Hence its great rarity—only 90 examples are recorded in the Wagshall census, this being item 5-COV-071—and given that there is not one sound four margin single, this example is one of the finest of all the imperforate type Is.

 
Realized $45,000



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