Sale 1057 — The Curtis Collection: 1847-1901 Issues
Sale Date — Thursday, 7 November, 2013
Category — 1875 Continental Bank Note Co. Hard Paper Special Printing (Scott 167-180)
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90c Violet Carmine, Special Printing (177). Without gum as issued, intense shade on bright fresh paper, scissors-separated as usual but leaving full intact perforations on three sidesVERY FINE EXAMPLE OF THE RARE 90-CENT CONTINENTAL HARD-PAPER SPECIAL PRINTING.
Our recently updated census records for Scott 177 contain 46 copies. Only seventeen have perforations intact on all four sides. Many have poor centering.
Unpublished Census No. 177-UNC-08. With 1952 P.F. and 2010 P.S.E. certificates
24,000
4,250