Sale 1048 — 2013 Rarities of the World
Sale Date — Tuesday, 25 June, 2013
Category — Carriers and Locals incl. Pony Express
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Cat./Est. Value
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Letter Express (Wells), 10c Black on Pink Glazed, Half Used as 5c (96L3a). Right half, affixed by wafer and uncancelled on folded letter to Buffalo datelined "Milwaukee, September 16, 1844", Sidney Shepard correspondence, slight cut into bisected edge of stamp, docketed on back, Very Fine, a rare bisected use of the Wells' Letter Express 10c Black on Pink, from the Pitt Petri collection and offered to the market for the first time in more than 50 years (see previous lot), Scott Retail as bisect on cover uncancelled
2,500
1,000