Sale 1140 — Outstanding United States Stamps, featuring The Irwin Weinberg Inventory
Sale Date — Wednesday-Friday, 9-11 November, 2016
Category — 1c-50c 1898 Trans-Mississippi Issue (Scott 285-291)
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10c Trans-Mississippi (290). Perfectly centered with wide margins, fresh color on bright paper, neat oval cancel, Extremely Fine Gem, a superb stamp in every respect, with 2015 P.S.E. certificate (Superb 98; SMQ $1,800.00), this is the highest grade awarded in the P.S.E. Population Report and is equaled by only two other used examples, in fact there are no 10c Trans-Mississippi stamps graded higher than 98 in any condition, a feature shared only by the 50c and $2.00 values among the entire series
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