1c Blue, Ty. Ia (6). Position 99R4, huge margins all around, intense color and impression, neat crossed-lines pen cancel leaves entire design clearly visible, certificate notes "small stain" at top right but this appears to us to be canceling ink

EXTREMELY FINE APPEARING EXAMPLE OF THE 1851 ONE-CENT IMPERFORATE TYPE Ia.

Stamps printed from Plate 4 were issued in April, May and briefly in June 1857 before perforations were introduced. The relatively small number of imperforate Plate 4 stamps issued during this period explains the rarity and desirability of any of the imperforate stamp types produced from this plate (Ia, Ic, II, III and IIIa). The extremely rare Type Ia, showing the full design at bottom, was furnished only by 18 of the 200 subjects on Plate 4 (all bottom row positions except two which are sub-type Ic).

With 1997 P.F. certificate. Scott Retail as pen-cancelled

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