Sale 1050 — United States Stamps
Sale Date — Tuesday-Wednesday, 16-17 July, 2013
Category — Revenues, Hunting Permits, Sanitary Fairs, Official Seals
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Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
823°
$200.00 Red, Blue & Black, Second Issue, "Small Persian Rug" (R132). Bright fresh colors, nice centering and margins, manuscript "U.PA Past July 10, 1872" cancel, two faint horizontal creases from document folds barely evidentVERY FINE APPEARANCE. A BEAUTIFUL LIGHTLY CANCELED EXAMPLE OF THE $200.00 "SMALL PERSIAN RUG" -- ONE OF THE MOST COLORFUL STAMPS IN UNITED STATES PHILATELY.
From our 1979 Rarities sale and offered to the market for the first time since then
8,250
3,750