1c Express, Perforated (R1c var). Bottom right corner margin block of four, selvage at bottom right with impression of 2c U.S.I.R. part transfer, neat 1864 manuscript cancels, bottom selvage light horizontal crease, few irregularly punched perfs at top

VERY FINE. A RARE INSTANCE WHERE THE DESIGNS OF TWO DIFFERENT STAMPS ARE VISIBLE ON THE FACE OF THE SHEET.

There are very few cases in which two different stamps were unintentionally printed on the same sheet. Another example, offered in lot 159 of this sale, has the $3.00 Charter Party on the face and Sands' Elixir of Opium medicine stamp (RS208) on the back. The item offered here is especially unusual in that both impressions are visible on the same side of the sheet. It occurred not from a printing error, but when the plate was made. The transfer roll, which contained more than one design, was rocked into the area that was normally blank. A portion of the adjoining 2c U.S.I.R. transfer was inadvertently entered on the plate. Impressions from this "unintended transfer" are only seen on stamps with the bottom selvage intact, which are rare.

Ex Turner and Cunliffe. With 2008 P.F. certificate. Unlisted in Scott

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