Sale 1077 — United States Stamps and Possessions
Sale Date — Tuesday-Wednesday, 29-30 July, 2014
Category — 1851-56 Issue (Scott 5-17)
Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
46
1c Blue, Ty. III, Position 99R2 (8). Three large to huge margins, barely in at bottom, deep rich color, partial light circular datestamp, faint corner creaseFINE APPEARING AND COLLECTIBLE EXAMPLE OF THE RARE 1851 IMPERFORATE ONE-CENT BLUE TYPE III FROM POSITION 99R2.
While the design is slightly cut in at bottom and does not show the wide break in its entirety, this stamp has the huge double transfer along the right side that none of the hundreds of other different positions of the 1c Blue exhibit
12,500
2,100
