90c Post Office, "Sepcimen" Error (O56Sa). Without gum as issued, detailed impression, wide margins, perfs scissors-separated but intact on three sides, reperfed at top

VERY FINE APPEARANCE. THIS IS THE ONLY RECORDED EXAMPLE OF THE 90-CENT POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT WITH THE "SEPCIMEN" SPELLING ERROR. ONE OF THE GREAT RARITIES OF THE ISSUE.

Only 82 copies of the 90c 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. If full sheets were used, then only one can exist. The Combs book notes a copy was sold in a 1949 Laurence & Stryker sale, which must be the example offered here.

Signed Sloane in pencil. With 2016 P.F. certificate

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