Sale 1234 — The Gary Petersen Collection of Important United States Stamps

Sale Date — Thursday-Friday, 29-30 April, 2021

Category — 1875 Continental Bank Note Co. Hard Paper Special Printing (Scott 167-181)

Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
177
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Sale 1234, Lot 177, 1875 Continental Bank Note Co. Hard Paper Special Printing (Scott 167-181)1c Ultramarine, Special Printing (167). Without gum as issued, deep rich color on bright paper, scissors-separated as usual with intact perfs at top and right and showing some perfs at bottom, reperfed at left to remove a small thin spot

VERY FINE APPEARING EXAMPLE OF THE ONE-CENT 1875 CONTINENTAL BANK NOTE COMPANY SPECIAL PRINTING.

Our census of Scott 167 contains 47 examples, including one in the Miller collection owned by The New York Public Library, leaving 46 available to collectors. Of these, fewer than ten have perforations all around.

Census no. 167-UNC-11. Ex Lyons where described as sound. 1991 P.F. certificate no. 238374, showing a straight edge at left and mentioning a thin, no longer accompanies. 1993 P.F. certificate no. 270525 stating "reperfed at left to remove small thin" also no longer accompanies. With 1993 P.S.E. certificate

14,000
9,500