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249777 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #14b, Facit #23a [1887 "1 CENT" Surcharge on 7 cent violet and yellow (Print 1) Bicolor] Mint with full original gum, with hinge remnant. Average-Fine centering that is fairly typical for this stamp. Under magnification, the perforations do NOT touch the frameline, but they are close. A couple of the perforations at top are slightly blunted, but otherwise there are no defects. Most examples on the market of Scott #14b are damaged and/or without gum; very few are in sound condition! 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 reasonable nice example of a scarce stamp. Of this printing, Facit says "at most 10,000" examples were printed. However, only a small fraction of that quantity have survived in Mint condition without major defects. Scott 2025 value $190. ACTUAL item. |
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89.00 |
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249485 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
15 [1895 "10 CENTS 1895" Surcharge on 50 cent Bicolor] NEVER HINGED with VF centering. A wonderful example with great color, perfect perforations, excellent centering, and wonderful freshness. It can be hard to find undamaged examples of this stamp; it was printed on very 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 a large break in the top of the "9" and in the right vertical of the "N" (but such varieties do not add to the cost). Seldom offered in such nice quality, but priced as a "normal" NH VF example! ACTUAL item. |
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135.00 |
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249444 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
15 [1895 "10 CENTS 1895" Surcharge on 50 cent Bicolor] Mint, lightly hinged, with XF centering. A wonderful example with great color, perfect perforations, almost perfect centering, and wonderful freshness. It can be hard to find undamaged examples of this stamp; it was printed on very 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 is unusual in that it does not show any flaws of the overprint characters, but it is interesting in that the "9" is quite fat. Seldom offered in such nice quality! ACTUAL item. |
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79.00 |
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248839 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
15 [1895 "10 CENTS 1895" Surcharge on 50 cent Bicolor] Mint, modestly hinged, with F-VF centering. A very attractive example with very nice quality and appearance. It can be hard to find undamaged examples of this stamp; it was printed on very 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 is unusual in that it does not show any flaws of the overprint characters! ACTUAL item. |
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44.00 |
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249942 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #15 STRIP OF THREE [1895 "10 CENTS 1895" Surcharge on 50 cent "Bicolor"] Mint, with disturbed original gum likely resulting from sheets sticking together in the tropical climate and probably being steamed apart. The left stamp has partial gum, the center stamp has nearly full gum and would qualify simply as Mint Hinged, and the right stamp has only a little gum remaining. Naturally from such a situation, there are some gum remnants on the front, as well as modern "gum soak" from the steaming apart. The three stamps are uniformly F-VF centered. This multiple shows the great variation in the individual type characters; the overprint was made up of "well used" type pieces and not all of matching font design. The specialized literature refers to the "1" of "1895" existing with a straight top serif, which can be seen on the left stamp in this strip. However, I have long suspected that this variation is an "l" (the letter L) and not a digit "1" -- that difference can be very clearly seen on the left stamp. Furthermore, this locally-applied overprint was printed with a plate of only 50 positions (5 columns of 10 rows), struck twice on the sheet. As a result, multiples spanning columns 5 and 6 can show different alignment of the overprint -- THIS MIS-ALIGNMENT IS EXTREMELY OBVIOUS IN THIS STRIP; the left overprint is significantly lower than the other two. While not the best quality one could wish for, this is a very interesting multiple showing important features of the local overprinting. Any multiples of this stamp are seldom offered. (The Scott 2025 value just as three Mint singles totals $135.) ACTUAL item. |
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248841 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
25a "Straight Foot on 2" [1902 8 on 10 cent Surcharge, Perf 12.75, 2 in 1902 with straight foot] Mint hinged, with F-VF centering. Very attractive example. This stamp is surprisingly hard to find. ACTUAL item. |
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37.00 |
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248840 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
25b ("T.S" variety) with ADDITIONAL OVAL VARIETY [1902 8 on 10 cent Bicolor Thin Local Surcharge] Mint with F-VF centering. In additional to the T.S oval variety, this example has an additional AFA-illustrated oval variety (shown in their generic illustration of the T.S variety, but this is a separate/additional variety): Missing thin outer oval ring below "10" in oval band. This variety of the underlying stamp, with the "T.S" in "CENT.S." is surprisingly hard to find -- but even more unusual with the additional variety. Very attractive. ACTUAL item. |
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67.00 |
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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. ACTUAL item. |
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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. ACTUAL item. |
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32.00 |
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249846 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #27a NORMAL FRAME in block with three Inverted Frame stamps [1902 2 on 3 cent Bicolor Bold Surcharge, Inverted Frame in all positions except one] NEVER HINGED right margin BLOCK OF FOUR with #27a NORMAL FRAME STAMP at lower right. The #27a has F-VF centering (the others F-VF to VF). The gum is original and fresh -- this example "escaped" the DWI climate before any damage could be done. This Normal Frame stamp only exists from sheet position 50 and only 350 sheets were overprinted. Only 350 examples of this Normal Frame stamp originally existed. I would not be surprised if only 100-150 examples still exist today. (Keep in mind that at the time this stamp was issued, collectors were still not aware that the Normal vs Inverted Frame difference existed on the Bicolors, thus collectors were not saving the varieties when they were issued.) This is one of the rarer DWI stamps -- in my opinion it has been underappreciated by the market -- this is a "rare" stamp, especially in NH condition! There is NO extra cost for being in the block; the other stamps are included at no extra charge. ACTUAL item. |
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