Sale 1172 — United States Stamps and Hawaii

Sale Date — Tuesday, 19 December, 2017

Category — 1859-65 Numeral Issues, cont. (Scott 12-13)

Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
1063
 
Sale 1172, Lot 1063, 1859-65 Numeral Issues, cont. (Scott 12-13)HAWAII, 1859, 2c Dark Blue, Grayish White (13a). Plate 1-A, Type II (Westerberg Position 10), huge margins all around including enormous bottom sheet margin, dark shade (identified on certificate as Dark Blue, Scott 13 instead of 13a), neatly pen cancelled, thin spot, faint vertical crease at center

EXTREMELY FINE APPEARANCE. THIS IS WITHOUT QUESTION ONE OF THE LARGEST-MARGINED EXAMPLES OF THE 1859 2-CENT DARK BLUE HAWAIIAN NUMERAL WE HAVE EVER ENCOUNTERED. A SPECTACULAR STAMP.

Ex Ostheimer and Aall (our sale in 1999, where it brought $6,500 hammer against a catalogue value of $3,500.00). With 1999 P.F. certificate

5,000
2,700