| Specimen Overprints |  Top |
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Mint Hinged  US$ |
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264170 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #O47Sb, 1875 1c Black Post Office Official with INVERTED "SPECIMEN" overprint in carmine. VF appearance. Large margins with natural sheet-margin straight edge at right. Thin. Much rarer than the catalog value suggests! Another dealer, who I respect greatly and who specializes in this type of material, saw this and commented that it is extremely rare, much scarcer than the catalog value indicates, and that a thin is typical on these because of how some of them were utilized for specimen use (such as UPU distribution and placing into the specimen books in other countries). A RARITY! Scott 2021 value $2500, but in reality this inverted overprint is much scarcer than that value suggests! Accompanied by 2019 Philatelic Foundation certificate. |
1695.00 |
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243250 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #O83S [1873 1c rose Franklin War Official, Normal Thin Hard Paper] "SPECIMEN" small blue overprint Special Printing (listed in Scott in a group after #O120). Mint (ungummed as issued) with VF centering and unusually large margins, but some soiling and a thin. Nice looking; seldom seen with large margins and good perforations. (Scott 2021 $35.00.) |
15.00 |