| 1855-1873 Classic Issues |  Top |
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247462 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #1a, Facit #1b, AFA #1B [1855 3 cent Carmine with YELLOW GUM] Used with VF centering; three full to large margins and one close but clear margin. Extremely lightly canceled with small VIOLET line of a type I have not previously seen. However the yellow gum stamps are known to have more colored cancellations (I had a wonderful blue ring cancellation about ten years ago) than the other gum types. The clean and crisp Carmine color of this stamp is the original gum as they were printed -- you would never know that by looking at a Scott #1 brown gum stamp. This is a #1a: The burelage I/A (lines upper left to lower right) are visible (a 10x magnifier is always needed on these) in the lower left corner. Furthermore, the stamp has VIRTUALLY FULL GUM; it had been adhered to an envelope and was removed without soaking, leaving a very small amount of paper adhered, but mostly full YELLOW gum. An outstanding and unquestionable example of a scarce stamp! ACTUAL item. |
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389.00 |
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247458 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
2 Dark Rose [1866 3 cent rose to carmine, Imperforate] Used XF with four full to large margins and almost perfectly centered 5-ring-plus-dot cancellation. While this cancellation was in normal use at all three primary post offices at this time, nice examples, especially so complete and well-centered, are hard to find. The printing of this example is unusually crisp and detailed, obviously either an early impression or printed right after the plates were cleaned. A handsome example! ACTUAL item. |
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79.00 |
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400401 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #2 [1866 3 cent Rose, Imperforate] Used with VF centering; three ample to large margins, fourth margin just clears design (this issue had small inter-stamp spacing on the plate). This example has an incredibly clear, proof-like impression; it must have been from very early in the printing! Very neat 5-ring mute cancels in upper left and upper right corners; the center dot is not visible on these strikes. Such corner-canceled examples are unusual. By regulation, these early stamps were supposed to center-canceled. Probably less than 1% of extant examples have corner cancels like this. Wonderful appearance! ACTUAL item. |
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SOLD |
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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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400402 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #3 [1872 3 cent Rose, Perforated] Mint, WITHOUT GUM (typical), with F-VF centering (three margins, typical). Unusually Dark Carmine color. A very attractive example! A with-gum example of this centering would be $130. [This issue was printed on very thin paper, often resulting in the watermark shows through when against a dark background. The website image shows both dark and light backgrounds.] ACTUAL item. |
SOLD |
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