15c Agriculture, "Sepcimen" Error (O7Sa). Without gum as issued, rich color, wide margins

VERY FINE AND CHOICE. AN EXTREMELY RARE EXAMPLE OF THE 15-CENT AGRICULTURE WITH THE "SEPCIMEN" ERROR. ONLY THREE ARE KNOWN.

Only 370 of the 15c 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 two examples (2004 Bennett sale), but it is not clear if his census included the Golden example. We record three: 1) intact perfs, sound, ex Golden (Siegel Sale 1095, lot 522, realized $10,500 hammer); 2) the example offered here; and 3) ex Lewenthal and Markovits, last sold in Siegel Sale 905, scissors-separated into the perfs at top.

Small purple backstamp. With 2016 P.F. certificate

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