5c Brown (29). Mint N.H. with top sheet selvage, bright shade, detailed impression

VERY FINE. AN EXTREMELY RARE MINT NEVER-HINGED EXAMPLE OF THE 1857 5-CENT TYPE I IN THE BROWN COLOR. THIS IS THE FIRST IN MINT NEVER-HINGED CONDITION WE HAVE OFFERED SINCE KEEPING COMPUTERIZED RECORDS.

A review using Power Search, which contains all of our sales from 1995 to date plus select older auctions including our Rarities sales back to 1964, failed to find another in Mint N.H. condition, as either a single or part of a block. This is also the only example contained in the online records of the Philatelic Foundation.

With 2010 P.F. certificate. Scott Retail as hinged

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