Sale 1150 — United States Stamps
Sale Date — Wednesday, 1 March, 2017
Category — 1875 Continental Bank Note Co. Hard Paper Special Printing (Scott 167-177, 180)
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Realized
803
30c Greenish Black, Special Printing (176). Without gum as issued, intense shade and impression, scissors-separated as almost always but leaving intact perfs at top and leftVERY FINE. A RARE SOUND AND CENTERED EXAMPLE OF THE 30-CENT 1875 CONTINENTAL BANK NOTE COMPANY SPECIAL PRINTING.
Our recently updated census records for Scott 176 contain 50 copies. Of these, approximately a dozen have perforations on all four sides. Very few of those are well-centered.
Census No. 176-UNC-33. Last offered to the market in Siegel Sale 381 (Oct. 1970). P.F. certificate no. 23885 no longer accompanies.
13,500
5,250