Sale 1148 — The Barry K. Schwartz Collection of The U.S. 1909 Bluish Paper Issue
Sale Date — Tuesday, 28 February, 2017
Category — Six-Cent Red Orange (Scott 362)
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6c Red Orange, Bluish (362). Brilliant color on deeply blued paper, full to wide margins and choice centering, bold strike of oval grid from duplex datestamp and cancel, partly reperforated at rightVERY FINE APPEARANCE. AN EXTREMELY RARE USED EXAMPLE OF THE 1909 6-CENT ON BLUISH PAPER.
Our census of used 6c Bluish Paper stamps, available at our website at http://siegelauctions.com/dynamic/census/362/362.pdf , records ten examples, including eight singles and one pair. A few of the stamps have cancellations of questionable status, leaving perhaps four with indisputably genuine cancels, including this example with a duplex oval grid.
Census No. 362-CAN-05. With 2011 P.F. certificate
12,500
14,000