Sale 1150 — United States Stamps
Sale Date — Wednesday, 1 March, 2017
Category — Newspapers and Periodicals: 1879 thru 1895 Issues
Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
1284
60c Pink, 1894 Issue (PR98). Original gum, natural vertical gum crease at left, tiny filled in hole to the right of "RS"VERY FINE APPEARANCE. THE 60-CENT 1894 NEWSPAPER ISSUE IS ONE OF THE RAREST OF ALL NEWSPAPER STAMPS. ONLY SEVENTEEN UNUSED EXAMPLES ARE CONTAINED IN OUR RECORDS.
Our census of PR98 is available at http://siegelauctions.com/dynamic/census/PR98/PR98.pdf . Of the seventeen unused and five used copies contained in our records, only two are potentially sound, and neither is as well-centered as this example.
Census No. PR98-OG-09. With 1990 P.S.E. and 2005 P.F. certificates, the latter not mentioning the gum crease
40,000
5,250
