Sale 1192 — United States Stamps including Confederate States and Hawaii
Sale Date — Wednesday-Friday, 14-16 November, 2018
Category — 1879-88 American Bank Note Co. Issues (Scott 182-218)
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30c Orange Brown (217). Jumbo margins and wonderfully well-centered, brilliant color, neat "Boston Mass. Jul. 20, '90" circular datestamp cancel, Extremely Fine Gem, a superb used example of this issue, Brookman notes "the lighter color makes fine used copies difficult to find and I doubt if one in a hundred could be rated as superb", with 2018 P.S.E. certificate (XF-Superb 95 Jumbo; SMQ $1,100.00), this is the highest grade awarded to a used Scott 217 and it is shared by only two others
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1,900