Sale 1187 — United States Stamps
Sale Date — Wednesday, 25 July, 2018
Category — 1875 Continental Bank Note Co. Hard Paper Special Printing (Scott 167-177)
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3c Blue Green, Special Printing (169). Without gum as issued, rich color, perfs scissors-separated as usual but intact on three sides and showing some perfs at left, faint horizontal crease not mentioned on accompanying certificateFINE APPEARING EXAMPLE OF THE 1875 3-CENT CONTINENTAL BANK NOTE COMPANY SPECIAL PRINTING.
Our census of Scott 169 contains 36 examples that have been certified as genuine by The Philatelic Foundation (including one on cover). Of these, only three have perforations all around and are confirmed as sound.
Census No. 169-UNC-22. With 1957 P.F. certificate
21,500
6,000