5c Red Brown (28). Original gum which covers most of the back, beautiful warm 1858 shade approaching Indian Red (which is how this was originally submitted for certification), in our opinion 5c Type I stamps in this shade are either Indian Red (Scott 28A) or Bright Red Brown (Scott 28b), perfs just in at bottom, small corner crease at top left

FINE APPEARING AND RARE ORIGINAL-GUM EXAMPLE OF THE 1857 5-CENT RED BROWN.

The perforated 5c “1856” Red Brown (Scott 28) stamps were made from the stock of imperforate stamps on hand in 1857 when perforations were introduced. The 1858 printing, the first after perforations were introduced, was in the Bright Red Brown and Indian Red shades. The perforated 5c Type I stamps in any shade of Red Brown are very rare in unused or original-gum condition. In the past thirteen years we have offered over 200,000 auction lots of primarily U.S. stamps. During that time, we have sold only two other Scott 28 singles with original gum and the block of four in the Whitman sale. In our opinion, the Scott Catalogue value for Scott 28 with original gum is too low. The number of original-gum Scott 28 singles falls somewhere between the numbers for the Brick Red (Scott 27) and the Indian Red (Scott 28A), which catalogue $80,000.00 and $175,000.00, respectively.

Ex Geisler. With 1984 P.F. and 2007 P.S.E. certificates

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