$2.50 Claret & Black, Third Issue, Center Inverted (R146a). Rich colors, choice centering, neat March 11, 1872 manuscript cancel, long and full perforations all around, light horizontal crease

EXTREMELY FINE APPEARANCE. ONLY FOURTEEN EXAMPES OF THE $2.50 THIRD ISSUE REVENUE INVERT ARE RECORDED, MAKING THIS ONE OF THE RAREST OF ALL REVENUE INVERTS. THIS IS WITHOUT QUESTION ONE OF THE FINEST.

In his privately published census, Larry Lyons records only fourteen copies of this invert rarity. Two are repaired, one has perfs trimmed away and most of the rest have faults to varying degrees.

Ex "Isleham" (Peyton) and Inman. With 2018 P.S.E. certificate

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