Sale 1019 — United States Stamps
Sale Date — Thursday-Friday, 1-2 March, 2012
Category — Officials, incl. Specimens (Scott O9-O65S)
Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
966
30c Agriculture (O9). Original gum, vivid color, well-balanced margins, Very Fine and choice, with 2011 P.S.E. certificate (OGh, VF 80; SMQ $590.00), in our opinion this is undergraded
550
550
967
10c Executive (O14). Rich color, bold circle of V's cancel, Fine, with 2000 P.F. certificate
650
0
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30c Interior (O23). Rich color, neat strike of quartered cork cancel, choice centering with wide margins, Extremely Fine, with 2011 P.S.E. certificate
20
100
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30c Navy (O44). Original gum, lightly hinged, pretty shade well-proportioned margins, Extremely Fine, with 2011 P.S.E. certificate (OGph, XF 90; SMQ $620.00)
325
500
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24c State (O65). Original gum, deep rich color and proof-like impression, beautiful centering with wide and balanced margins, Extremely Fine, a pretty stamp, with 2000 P.F. and 2011 P.S.E. certificates
525
700
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$20.00 State (O71). Original gum, well-centered, fresh with beautiful bold colors and clear impression, expertly reperfed at right, Very Fine appearance, with 1977 and 2011 P.F. certificates, only the latter mentioning the reperfing
5,500
1,700
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12c Treasury (O78). Pretty shade, bold strike of circle of wedges cancel, Extremely Fine, with 2011 P.F. certificate
10
110
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15c Treasury (O79). Bright shade nicely complemented by blue circular datestamp, well-balanced margins, fresh and Extremely Fine, a pretty stamp, with 2011 P.S.E. certificate
13
140
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S
1c Executive, Specimen Ovpt. (O10S). Bottom imprint and plate no. 82 block of twenty with selvage at sides, plate no. 81 scored out below, without gum as issued, brilliant color, tiny piece of left selvage missing at top leftFINE. AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE IMPRINT AND PLATE NUMBER BLOCK OF 20 OF THE ONE-CENT EXECUTIVE WITH "SPECIMEN" OVERPRINT -- COMPRISING THE FULL TWO BOTTOM ROWS OF THE PLATE. A MAGNIFICENT SHOWPIECE.
After the plate number "81" was engraved on the 1c plate, it was realized that No. 81 had already been assigned to the 30c War plate. The number was scratched out and replaced with "82" above Position 7 and below Position 97. A smaller multiple (block of 14, which did not include the right block of six present in this plate block) realized $16,000 in our 2007 sale of the Starnes collection
18,415
12,000
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S
12c Interior, Specimen Ovpt. (O20S). Without gum as issued, scissors separated as virtually always but showing mostly full perfs, Fine and scarce with only 75 issued
2,500
850
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S
1c-24c State, Specimen Ovpt. (O57S-O61S, O64S-O65S). Part set incl. 1c-7c, 15c and 24c, without gum as issued, couple flaws incl. some with the typical scissors separation, Fine or appear so
1,952
850
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U.S. Officials Accumulation. Stockbook with hundreds of stamps and proofs, one page of Specimen ovpts. incl. several better, Scott Retail on that group alone more than $2,000.00, also group of Navy Dept. with red diagonal ruled lines allegedly for specimen use, used stamps covering range of departments and denominations through 90c incl. 1c Agriculture identified by owner as Soft Paper (no guarantees on that), few unused Interior and War Dept., also range of India and card proofs incl. some high denomination State Dept. perforated to appear as normal stamps, mixed condition with some Fine-Very Fine
E. 750-1,000
3,750
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