| Stamps Scott #1-4 |  Top |
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230902 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
1 Mint with Fine centering but with thin. Looks nice. ACTUAL item. |
42.00 |
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400399 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #1 [1855 1 cent Dark Carmine, Imperforate, Brown Gum] Used with Average margins (cuts or touches on 2-3 sides). Nice, neat 5-rings-with-dot cancellation. Excellent color and nicely shows the brown gum, but the paper color is still fairly light (nicer than many). The brown gum is still present because the brown gum stamps often did not stick very tightly to the covers and it is hard to soak off the stamps; I recommend that the brown gum should not be soaked off. The brown gum was officially applied by the Christiansted post office after humidity or seawater [reportedly variously in the literature] damage on the trip from Denmark caused the sheets with original white gum to stick together. This is an attractive example, without any defects, but with the limited margins, it is priced very low. A F-VF example would be $235 and a VF example would be $360! ACTUAL item. |
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75.00 |
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230901 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
1 Used slight defects, lightly canceled. Looks nice. (The lighter paper coloration suggests that this might be 1a, yellow gum, but cannot be determined for sure.) ACTUAL item. |
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42.00 |
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400400 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #1a [1855 1 cent Dark Carmine, Imperforate, Yellow Gum] Used with F-VF with margins and appearance (three margins clear, one very large), but with small tear and a thin at the upper right corner (only visible from the reverse). Light, centrally struck 5-rings-with-dot mute cancellation and nice color. The yellow gum is fully intact; which is somewhat unusual, but sometimes the yellow gum did not adhere well to the covers. It is important to leave any yellow (or white) gum intact if it is present because it confirms the identity of the stamp. The yellow gum was officially applied by the St. Thomas post office after humidity or seawater [reportedly variously in the literature] damage on the trip from Denmark caused the sheets with original white gum to stick together. This is an attractive example, without any defects, but with the limited margins, it is priced very low. This is a scarce stamp. The 2024 Facit value is SEK 4500 (approx US$ 450 9/2025) and the 2026 Scott value is $375. ACTUAL item. |
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69.00 |
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246728 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
2 PRIVATELY ROULETTED????? [1866 3 cent Rose, Imperforate?] Mint, without gum, F-VF with three margins, but with internal paper break in the back of the stamp (a lateral tear within the plane of the paper). This example appears to be rouletted, and AFA and DAKA do list two different private roulettes (4.5 and 9.5), but only in Used condition and on cover. Because it would be relatively easy to alter a normal imperforate example to look like a rouletted example, I cannot state definitively that this is a genuine private roulette -- however, I also cannot state that it is a fake roulette. This could be the real thing and if so, it would be quite rare and valuable, especially since Mint examples do not seem to have been recorded. (I obtained it in a group of DWI duplicates, not recognized for what it may be, from a collector who obtained it in a group of stamps also not recognized for what it might be.) This example may not be genuine rouletted stamp, thus it can only be offered AS-IS. Do you feel lucky? ACTUAL item. |
49.00 |
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