Sale 1019 — United States Stamps

Sale Date — Thursday-Friday, 1-2 March, 2012

Category — $1.00-$5.00 1893 Columbian Issue (Scott 241-245)

Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
577
bl
Sale 1019, Lot 577, $1.00-$5.00 1893 Columbian Issue (Scott 241-245)$5.00 Columbian (245). Block of four, bold strikes of Philadelphia oval registry cancel, small thin spot top right and small sealed tear bottom left stamps, bottom right stamp perfs trimmed at bottom, significant reinforced perf separations horizontal row and between two bottom stamps

FINE APPEARANCE. A RARE AND AFFORDABLE USED BLOCK OF THE $5.00 COLUMBIAN ISSUE.

Used blocks of the dollar-value Columbians are rare, and those with registry cancels indicating proper use on mail are exceedingly rare. A Power Search of our past Rarities sales and our auctions of the past 16 years shows that this is only the fourth used block of the $5.00 we have offered in that time

15,000
2,600