Sale 1062 — The Golden Oak Collection of Superb United States

Sale Date — Tuesday-Wednesday, 17-18 December, 2013

Category — 1909 Commemoratives, 1910-13 Washington-Franklin Issue (Scott 369-396)

Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
570
 
Sale 1062, Lot 570, 1909 Commemoratives, 1910-13 Washington-Franklin Issue (Scott 369-396)3c Deep Violet, Orangeburg Coil (389). Choice centering for this difficult issue with wide margins, deep rich color, neat wavy-line machine cancel used at Orangeburg N.Y., faint diagonal crease and small corner flaw at top right as do most

VERY FINE APPEARING EXAMPLE OF THE RARE 3-CENT ORANGEBURG COIL.

This coil was used exclusively by Bell Pharmaceutical Co. in Orangeburg N.Y. to mail physician's samples. Due to their use on mass mailings, many of the existing Orangeburg coils are faulty to some extent. The most common defects are corner creases or tears.

With 1976 P.F. certificate

11,000
4,500