Sale 1067 — United States Stamps

Sale Date — Monday-Friday, 24-28 March, 2014

Category — Revenues: Playing Cards, Silver Tax, Narcotics

Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
685
 
Sale 1067, Lot 685, Revenues: Playing Cards, Silver Tax, Narcotics$1,000.00 Gray, "Series 1942" Ovpt., Silver Tax (RG107). Serial no. 756, purple boxed handstamp cancel, bright and fresh, vertical crease

VERY FINE APPEARANCE. AN EXTREMELY RARE EXAMPLE OF THE $1,000.00 1942 SERIES SILVER TAX ISSUE. ESPECIALLY DESIRABLE CANCELLED SOLELY BY THE PURPLE HANDSTAMP

This is one of the keys to a complete collection of these issues. As an indication of rarity, none was offered in our recent Scarsdale sale, and only one other example (Serial no. 752, with staple holes) was found with Power Search.

7,500
2,900