3c State, "Sepcimen" Error (O59Sa). Without gum as issued, bright color, three wide margins, perfs just in at top

FINE. A RARE EXAMPLE OF THE 3-CENT STATE DEPARTMENT "SEPCIMEN" ERROR. ONLY APPROXIMATELY FIVE EXAMPLES ARE KNOWN.

Only 793 copies of the 3c State 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 eight can possibly exist. Only five were recorded by Markovits (2004 Bennett sale). There is one in the Miller collection (on extended loan by The New York Public Library to the Smithsonian National Postal Museum). We are aware of five privately-owned examples: the Lewenthal, Combs, Sheriff, Markovits and Golden copies.

Ex Sheriff. Sloane backstamp. With 2016 P.F. certificate

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