8c Olive Green, Bluish (363). Hinged only at top, outstanding centering with unusually balanced margins, intense color on deeply blued paper

EXTREMELY FINE. AN OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL-GUM EXAMPLE OF THE 8-CENT WASHINGTON ON BLUISH PAPER. AN EXTREMELY RARE STAMP IN THIS HIGH GRADE.

The June 1910 Third Assistant Postmaster General’s report states that 4,000 (ten sheets) of the 8c were printed on Bluish Paper. It is believed that none of the 4c and 8c Bluish Paper stamps were distributed to post offices, and that all of the examples in collectors’ hands reached the market through the Travers-Steinmetz exchange and the 1914 National Museum trades to H. F. Colman (12 copies) and Nassau Stamp Company (65 copies).

With 2017 P.S.E. certificate (OGph, XF 90; SMQ $72,500.00). Only one stamp has a higher grade (at 95, from our Odeneal sale in 2007) and one other is graded 90.

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