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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Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
804
90c Violet Carmine, Special Printing (177). Without gum as issued, brilliant color, perfs scissors-separated as usual but intact on at least two sides, unusual natural plate wash at lower leftVERY FINE. A RARE SOUND EXAMPLE OF THE 90-CENT 1875 CONTINENTAL BANK NOTE COMPANY SPECIAL PRINTING.
Our census records for Scott 177 contain 46 copies.
Census No. 177-UNC-21. Offered to the market for the first time since Siegel Sale 459 (Oct. 1974). With 1970 P.F. certificate
20,000
6,250
