1c Blue, Ty. III (8). Positions 23-24L4, horizontal pair, full to enormous margins all around, wide breaks at top and bottom, incredibly rich color and proof-like impression, light New Orleans circular datestamp, faintest trace of a crease at bottom right

EXTREMELY FINE APPEARANCE. A HANDSOME AND RARE PAIR OF THE TYPE III 1851 ONE-CENT IMPERFORATE ISSUE.

There are only a small number of adjoining Type III positions on Plate 4, which produced both imperforate and perforated stamps. Imperforate Type III pairs are extremely rare. This pair shows clear breaks in the lines at top and bottom and comes from two "swing" positions, 23-24L4, which transformed from Type IIIa to Type III as the plate wore.

With 2004 P.F. certificate

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