Sale 1150 — United States Stamps

Sale Date — Wednesday, 1 March, 2017

Category — Newspapers and Periodicals: 1879 thru 1895 Issues

Lot
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Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
1284
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Sale 1150, Lot 1284, Newspapers and Periodicals: 1879 thru 1895 Issues60c 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