Sale 1096 — The Robert R. Hall Collection of Outstanding United States Stamps

Sale Date — Tuesday-Thursday, 28-30 April, 2015

Category — 1869 Pictorial Issue Inverts (Scott 119b-121b)

Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
236
 
Sale 1096, Lot 236, 1869 Pictorial Issue Inverts (Scott 119b-121b)15c Brown & Blue, Ty. II, Center Inverted (119b). Rich colors, neat strike of small Star fancy cancel, minor faults including small repaired perforation at upper left

FINE APPEARING USED EXAMPLE OF THE 15-CENT 1869 PICTORIAL ISSUE INVERT AND ESPECIALLY DESIRABLE WITH THE STAR FANCY CANCEL.

Our recently-updated census of Scott 119b, available at our website at http://www.siegelauctions.com/dynamic/census/119b/119b.pdf , records three unused and 97 used copies of Scott 119b (there are an additional three examples of Scott 119c). Two of the used copies are in institutions -- the Tapling Collection at the British Library and the Miller Collection (on extended loan by The New York Public Library to the Smithsonian National Postal Museum).

Census No. 119b-CAN-56.

22,500
6,000