Sale 1148 — The Barry K. Schwartz Collection of The U.S. 1909 Bluish Paper Issue

Sale Date — Tuesday, 28 February, 2017

Category — One-Cent Green, Two-Cent Carmine (Scott 357-358)

Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
113
bl
Sale 1148, Lot 113, One-Cent Green, Two-Cent Carmine (Scott 357-358)2c Carmine, Bluish (358). Block of four, wavy-line machine cancel, remarkably choice centering, rich color, Very Fine-Extremely Fine, genuine used blocks of the Bluish Paper issue are very rare, Power Search located only one other used 2c block offered by our firm, this block is far superior and has a genuine machine cancel applied once -- as it should be -- as opposed to the multiples with forged cancels which often have machine cancels applied twice due to the forger's profound ignorance of the most fundamental aspects of philately; in this case, that envelopes are typically run through a machine device once -- with 2000 P.F. certificate

750
1,100