24c Post Office, "Sepcimen" Error (O54Sa). Without gum as issued, intense shade and impression, perfs scissors-separated but intact on all sides

FINE. THIS IS ONE OF ONLY TWO RECORDED EXAMPLES OF THE 24-CENT POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT WITH THE "SEPCIMEN" SPELLING ERROR. ONE OF THE GREAT RARITIES OF THE ISSUE, THIS IS THE FIRST TO COME TO MARKET SINCE OUR 1992 SHERIFF SALE.

Only 84 copies of the 24c Post Office 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. Two examples are known, lending credence to the theory that in some instances sheets were cut apart in advance and were sold before each sheet was exhausted. The scissors separations on the example offered here also indicates this method was used, at least for this issue.

The other recorded example of this error, ex Lewenthal and Sheriff and illustrated in the Combs book, has remained in a private collection since our 1992 auction of the Sheriff collection.

With 2016 P.F. certificate

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