Sale 1017 — United States Stamps

Sale Date — Tuesday-Thursday, 13-15 December, 2011

Category — 3c 1851-56, Dull Red, Shades, Varieties and Cancels (Scott 11-11A)

Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
411
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Sale 1017, Lot 411, 3c 1851-56, Dull Red, Shades, Varieties and Cancels (Scott 11-11A)3c Dull Red, Ty. II, "Three Rows" (11A). Positions 89-90/99-100L3, block of four, large margins to full, brilliant color, neat strike of large "Geneseo Ill. Feb. 21" circular datestamp, right stamps with no inner frameline with corner rosettes impinging on outer frameline, light corner crease at top right, Very Fine appearance, a desirable "Three Rows" multiple, the unintentionally wide spacing between the eighth and ninth vertical rows and the narrow spacing between the ninth and tenth vertical rows of the left pane of Plate 3 required special frameline recutting to minimize the visual spacing anomalies

1,000
2,000