3c War, Soft Paper, Imperforate Horizontal Pair (O116a). Original gum, lightly hinged, huge balanced margins, fresh and crisp, vivid color

EXTREMELY FINE GEM. POSSIBLY THE FINEST KNOWN EXAMPLE OF THIS RARE ERROR PAIR.

Examples of the 3c War Imperforate are rarely encountered with original gum

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3c War, Soft Paper, Imperforate Vertical Pair (O116a). Original gum, lightly hinged, ample to huge margins, fresh color

VERY FINE AND CHOICE. RARE DEPARTMENTAL ISSUE ERROR PAIR MISSING FROM VIRTUALLY ALL ADVANCED COLLECTIONS.

With 1995 P.F. certificate

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3c War, Soft Paper, Double Impression (O116b). Unused (no gum), attractively centered, fresh color

VERY FINE. AN INCREDIBLY RARE ERROR, NOT ONLY JUST FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT, BUT FOR ALL DEPARTMENTAL ISSUES.

Ex Markovits. With 1988 P.F. certificate

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War Department Plate Varieties. Five different, four are 3c values and incl. scratched plate (unused, original gum), "pale 3" (no shading at bottom of numeral 3), "smashed plate", plate flaw from the right pane (pos. 11), the other is a 15c value with listed short transfer (pos. 74), also 6c with diagonal pre-print paper fold, generally Fine and a difficult lot to duplicate, the War Department plate varieties, including some included in this lot were recently described by George Sayers with credit to David H. Lobdell in Chroncle 228 (pp. 355-357), where he states that plate varieties are fewer and more difficult to detect on War Dept. stamps than on other departmentals

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