Sale 1135 — The Grant Inman Collection, Part 2: U.S. Officials
Sale Date — Thursday, 15 September, 2016
Category — Official Special Printings - Navy Department
Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
637
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7c Navy, "Sepcimen" Error (O39Sa). Without gum as issued, brilliant color, perfs scissors-separated affecting a few at bottomVERY FINE. AN EXTREMELY RARE EXAMPLE OF THE 7-CENT NAVY DEPARTMENT WITH THE "SEPCIMEN" SPELLING ERROR. ONLY FOUR ARE RECORDED.
Only 501 copies of the 7c Navy 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 only five can possibly exist. Robert Markovits recorded only four examples of this rarity (2004 Bennett sale). This is the first we have sold since our 1993 Sheriff sale.
Ex Lewenthal and Sheriff. Illustrated in Combs pamphlet on p. 39. With 1999 P.F. certificate.
10,000
8,000
