Sale 1082 — The William Fekete Collection
Sale Date — Tuesday-Wednesday, 21-22 October, 2014
Category — Sanitary Fairs and Civil War Patriotics
Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
552
Brooklyn and Long Island Sanitary Fair, (15c) Green (WV4). Block of four, Positions 4-5/9-10, original gum, mostly full to large margins, diagonal creasesVERY FINE APPEARANCE. THIS IS THE SECOND LARGEST KNOWN MULTIPLE OF THE GREEN BROOKLYN SANITARY FAIR STAMP. A GREAT RARITY.
The largest known multiple is the unique block of six, offered in our sale of the Kantor collection in 1995 (Sale 766, lot 1158). This is the second largest recorded multiple and is the only block of four recorded.
Ex Kantor and illustrated in Sanitary Fairs on p. 92
6,500
2,600