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247134 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
14b [1887 "1 CENT" surcharge on 7 cent violet and yellow (Print 1) Bicolor] Mint with full original gum, very lightly hinged, with F-VF+ centering. There are faint hints of aging on a couple of perforation tips and a tiny natural inclusion (bit of tree fiber) in the right margin, but most people would consider this to be a VF example. Extraordinary excellent perforations for this Print 1 stamp. Most examples on the market of Scott #14b are damaged and/or without gum; very few are this nice! Because most examples on the market seem to be in sub-standard quality (and many not described as such), I believe that this has led #14b to be undervalued in the catalogs. This is a very nice example of a scarce stamp. Of this printing, Facit says "at most 10,000" examples were printed, but only a small fraction of that have survived in Mint and in such nice quality. |
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189.00 |
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245827 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
14b [1887 "1 CENT" surcharge on 7 cent violet and yellow (Print 1) Bicolor] Mint with full original gum, but hinge remnant, with F-VF centering. Excellent perforations for this Print 1 stamp. NO defects -- most examples of Scott #14b are damaged and/or without gum. Because most examples on the market seem to be in sub-standard quality (and many not described as such), I believe that this has led #14b to be undervalued in the catalogs. This is a very nice example of a scarce stamp. Of this printing, Facit says "at most 10,000" examples were printed. |
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190.00 |
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247274 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
15 [1895 "10 CENTS 1895" Surcharge on 50 cent Bicolor] Mint, lightly hinged, with F-VF centering, great color, and perfect perforations. It is quite hard to find such nice examples of this stamps which was printed on thin paper and is often found damaged. The locally-applied overprint was printed with a plate of only 50 positions, struck twice on the sheet. There are many variations in the overprint characters from stamp to stamp. This example shows the "1" of 1895 to be bent and without serifs; the "8" is flattened on the left side and looks odd. Examples of this stamp in such attractive and fresh quality are a pleasure to see. Priced as a normal Mint F-VF example. |
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44.00 |
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241725 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
25b [1902 "8 CENTS 1902" locally printed (thin) surcharge on 10 cent Bicolor, with T.S variety] Mint with Fine centering, but without gum. This variety of the underlying stamp, with the "T.S" in "CENT.S." is surprisingly hard to find. |
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20.00 |
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247144 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
27 Plate Variety [1902 2 on 3 cent Bicolor Bold Surcharge, Inverted Frame] Mint, extremely lightly hinged, with F-VF centering. PLATE VARIETY from Position 31 of this printing, but despite being at least as obvious as some of the other varieties, it is not (yet) catalog listed: White hook on the underside of the D of DISKE and white spot to upper left of large 3. This variety is clearly documented in the Lasse Nielsen Bicolor handbook (in Volume 3) as variety OF 9. With only 350 sheets printed with this overprint, only 350 examples of this plate variety originally existed with this overprint. This particular stamp seemed to have been more subject than usual to high losses due to tropical staining, perhaps due to postal storage methods. Thus I suspect that, at most, less than 150-200 examples of this stamp can still exist today; and probably only, at most, half that number in Mint (or NH) condition still exist. Because this variety has not been well-cataloged, the quantity of surviving examples could be much smaller. |
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32.00 |
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205607 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
40 NH VF 4-block with rough perforation variety (fairly scarce on this issue). |
180.00 |
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239288 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
40 [1905 "5 BIT 1905" surcharge on 4 cent Bicolor] NEVER HINGED VF 4-Block. Wonderfully fresh. |
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260.00 |
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239287 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
40 Rough Perforation Variety [1905 "5 BIT 1905" surcharge on 4 cent Bicolor] Mint Superb. Very unusual rough perforation variety; this is seldom seen on this stamp or the underlying stamp issue. |
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30.00 |
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239289 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
40 [1905 "5 BIT 1905" surcharge on 4 cent Bicolor] Mint (bottom two stamps are NH) Fine/Average 4-Block. Attractive and priced below the value of four singles of this centering! |
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36.00 |
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205608 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
41 NH F-VF 4-block. Fresh and nice. |
115.00 |
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