Sale 1037 — United States and Foreign Stamps and Covers

Sale Date — Monday-Friday, 10-14 December, 2012

Category — Switzerland

Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
3172
 
Sale 1037, Lot 3172, SwitzerlandGENEVA, 1850, 5c Black on Red, Neuchatel (2L7). Choice margins all around showing nearly three and one-half dividing lines, beautiful impression, bold red grid "cancel", minor corner creases top right corner, otherwise Extremely Fine, beautiful appearance, with 1981 Rellstab certificate which states the red cancel is "fake" and "painted onto", we have a hard time understanding why someone would add a fake cancel to what presumably was an unused example of a stamp with a Scott Retail for unused ($11,500.00) more than three times that of the used value, Scott Retail for genuine used No. 2L7

3,500
200