Sale 1135 — The Grant Inman Collection, Part 2: U.S. Officials
Sale Date — Thursday, 15 September, 2016
Category — Official Special Printings - Agriculture Department
12c Agriculture, "Sepcimen" Error (O6Sa). Without gum as issued, brilliant color, typical centering for this issueFINE. AN EXTREMELY RARE SOUND EXAMPLE OF THE 12-CENT AGRICULTURE WITH "SEPCIMEN" SPELLING ERROR. FEWER THAN FIVE ARE KNOWN, AND THIS IS UNDOUBTEDLY THE FINEST.
Only 379 copies of the 12c Agriculture Special Printing were sold, but it is not known how the stamps were taken from the sheets or if full sheets were exhausted before breaking a subsequent sheet. If full sheets were used, then at most four can possibly exist. Robert Markovits recorded only three examples (2004 Bennett sale). We are aware of four, including the used example offered in the following lot, one offered in our 2016 sale of the Rollin C. Huggins Jr. collection, and one offered in our Sale 1017 that had a large stained repair.
Ex Lewenthal, Sheriff and Markovits. Signed Bloch. With 2004 P.F. certificate.
