5c Brick Red (27). Radiant color, wonderfully well-centered with wide margins, perfs well clear of outer projections on all sides, face-free grid cancel at top

EXTREMELY FINE USED EXAMPLE OF THE 5-CENT 1857 ISSUE IN THE DISTINCTIVE BRICK RED COLOR. ONE OF THE FINEST USED EXAMPLES OF THIS STAMP IN EXISTENCE.

The distinctive Brick Red color is unlike any of the 5c 1856-61 shades and was probably an ink mixture anomaly in the first printing of 1858 when the rich Red Brown stamps with perforations were produced. Stamps printed in Brick Red were not released until later, which gives them an October 1858 earliest documented use date. They are notoriously difficult to find in sound, centered and lightly-cancelled condition, the three virtues possessed by this stamp.

With 2003 P.F. and 2006 P.S.E. certificates (XF 90; SMQ $4,250.00). Only four have graded higher to date, all at 95

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