3c Post Office, "Sepcimen" Error (O49Sa). Without gum as issued, scissors-separated but perforations are mostly intact except for a few at top

THE ONLY RECORDED EXAMPLE OF THE 3-CENT POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT SPECIAL PRINTING WITH "SEPCIMEN" ERROR. ONE OF THE GREAT RARITIES OF SPECIAL PRINTINGS.

Only 91 copies of the 3c Post Office Special Printing were sold. Assuming that one sheet was divided and sold before starting on the next sequential sheet (we do not know if that, in fact, was the practice), then no more than one 3c Post Office "Sepcimen" error (Position 21) was sold. According to Combs, the existence of a 3c Post Office "Sepcimen" was reported by Konwiser in 1925 (see page 40 of Combs book), but it was not listed in the Scott Catalogue until 1971, two years after it was certified by Herbert Bloch of the Friedl Expert Committee.

Ex Golden. With 1969 Friedl certificate.

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