Sale 1133 — United States and Possessions

Sale Date — Tuesday-Wednesday, 26-27 July, 2016

Category — 15c 1869 Pictorial Issue, off-Cover (Scott 118-119b)

Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
238
 
Sale 1133, Lot 238, 15c 1869 Pictorial Issue, off-Cover (Scott 118-119b)15c Brown & Blue, Ty. II, Center Inverted (119b). Rich colors, bold strike of quartered cork and red German transit cancels, partly reperfed at top, light crease, single short perf

VERY FINE APPEARING USED EXAMPLE OF THE 15-CENT 1869 PICTORIAL ISSUE INVERT.

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 100 used copies of Scott 119b (there are an additional three used examples of Scott 119c). Two of the used copies are in institutions -- the Tapling Collection at the British Library and the Miller Collection at The New York Public Library.

Census No. 119b-CAN-21. Ex Ferrary and with his purple trefoil backstamp. With 1948 R.P.S. certificate

22,500
5,500