Sale 1089 — The Curtis Collection: U.S. Revenues, Part 1
Sale Date — Tuesday, 16 December, 2014
Category — Proprietary Inverts
Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
561
3c Green & Black on Violet Paper, Center Inverted (RB3ad). Rich color, neat manuscript "X" cancel, right margin addedFINE APPEARANCE. ONLY SEVEN EXAMPLES OF THE 3-CENT PROPRIETARY ON VIOLET PAPER WITH INVERTED CENTER ARE RECORDED. A GREAT RARITY.
In his privately published census of the 3c Proprietary inverts, Larry Lyons records only seven examples (none is known on green paper). Of these seven, one has a missing corner, two others have repaired corners, one has thins and is stained and one has creases and nibbed perfs.
With 1992 P.S.E. certificate
14,000
3,250