Sale 1217 — United States Stamps
Sale Date — Tuesday, 3 March, 2020
Category — Revenues - First Issue
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60c Inland Exchange, Imperforate (R64a). Brilliant color, large margins to full, bold strike of "A&W Sprague Nov. ? 1863" circular datestamp, fresh and Very Fine, brothers Amasa and William Sprague founded this firm in Cranston Rhode Island, William was a United States Senator and Amasa, who ran the textile plant, was brutally bludgeoned to death on Dec. 31, 1843, the resultant arrest of three Irish-Catholic brothers named Gordon led to what historians have called the "trial of the century" in Rhode Island
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