3c Dull Red, Ty. I, Vertical One-Third "Trisect" Used as 1c (11 var). Top right trisected stamp attached to vertical strip of three, each cancelled by neat manuscript "X" with matching "Garrote Cal May 31st" postmark on buff cover to East Brooklyn N.Y., trisect with negligible corner crease, some slight edgewear

VERY FINE. A CHOICE AND EXTREMELY RARE USE OF A 3-CENT 1851 TRISECTED STAMP, PAYING ONE-CENT OF THE 10-CENT TRANSCONTINENTAL RATE.

The census of 3c 1851 bisects, published by David Beals in Chronicle 76 and updated by Stanley M. Piller in Chronicle 136 and 137, contains a total of 16 covers. Of these, one is the strip of four bisects used from Milton, Massachusetts, seven were bisected (or in this case trisected) for use as 1c stamps to pay part of the 10c transcontinental rate, and eight were bisected to pay the 1c circular rate.

Ex Kramer and from our 1982 Rarities sale. Illustrated in Chronicle no. 136 (p. 254). Pre-1982 P.F. certificate no longer accompanies. Scott lists bisects of the Ty. II (11A) used as a 1c, but does not list the Ty. I (11) as a bisect or any trisects used as 1c.

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