Brattleboro Vt., 5c Black on Buff (5X1). Position 10, full margins all around, intense shade and impression, pen cancel at left, small thin spot at center, totally negligible considering the superb appearance and otherwise excellent condition of this stamp

EXTREMELY FINE APPEARANCE. A RARE FOUR-MARGIN EXAMPLE OF THE 5-CENT BRATTLEBORO POSTMASTER'S PROVISIONAL. ONLY 32 COPIES ARE RECORDED OFF COVER, THIS BEING ONE OF THE FINEST.

This stamp comes from the sheet retained by the printer, Thomas Chubbuck, who sold three stamps to collectors before selling the remaining block of seven to L. H. Bragg in September 1870. Bragg, in turn, sold the block to John W. Scott. The stamps from the Chubbuck block were eventually cut apart and sold to different collectors. In the 1920's Raymond W. Lapham, with the professional help of Warren H. Colson, reconstructed the Brattleboro plate positions, including some stamps from the Chubbuck sheet. (Reference: "The Plating of the Brattleboros", Calvet M. Hahn, Collectors Club Philatelist, Mar.-Apr. 1988). The plate reconstruction with this stamp appeared at auction in the Christie's October 1989 sale of the Weill Brothers' stock.

Ex Ferrary, Lapham, Colson, Weill and Wall. With 2007 P.F. certificate

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