3c Brown Red, Re-Issue (104). Light strike of "4" oval grid portion of duplex cancel, choice centering with wide and balanced margins, small and truly negligible corner crease at bottom right is mentioned, but the reperfed left side is not

EXTREMELY FINE APPEARANCE. THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST-CENTERED USED EXAMPLES OF THE 3-CENT 1861 RE-ISSUE. ONLY 24 ARE RECORDED IN OUR CENSUS.

The 3c Re-Issue was printed from the original plate, which contained 200 subjects in two panes. 10,000 were printed (50 impressions). Only 465 of the 3c were sold; the remaining 9,535 were destroyed on July 16, 1884.

Our census of Scott 104 used, available at our website at http://siegelauctions.com/dynamic/census/104/104.pdf , records 24 examples, plus one with a non-contemporary cancel (not shown). Only seven are confirmed as sound, and several of those are off-center.

Census No. 104-CAN-24. With 2015 P.F. certificate which mentions corner crease, but does not note reperfed left side

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