12c Green (117). Rich color, bold quartered cork cancel with the appearance of brown, accompanying certificate states the cancel color is the result of "mixture of red and black inks rather than a true brown ink", still a striking and Very Fine stamp and probably the closest anyone can come to owning the 12c with a brown cancel as there are none recorded, despite its listing in Scott (see Chronicle 242 for a census of colored cancels on 1869 Issue stamps), with 2006 P.F. certificate (VF 80), Scott Retail as red cancel

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