Sale 1144 — Smithsonian National Postal Museum Benefit Auction
Sale Date — Tuesday, 13 December, 2016
Category — 1c 1851-56 Issue, Type IV (Scott 9)
Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
46
1c Blue, Ty. IV (9). Position 8R1L, recut twice at bottom, large margins all around including part of adjoining stamps at left and bottom and sheet margin at top, rich color on bright paper with unusual printing ink smear at top that is very dramatic and causes an almost complete lack of definition of the design in the top portion of the stamp, light strike of blue circular datestamp, Extremely Fine, an unusual freak printing from a position which in its early state produced one of the two best examples of Type Ib (Scott 5A), small backstamp, with 2005 P.F. certificate
E. 500-750
450
