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)
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Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
187
90c Violet Carmine, Special Printing (177). Without gum as issued, rich color on bright paper, nibbed perfs at top and left, reperfed at bottom, small tear at lower leftFINE APPEARING EXAMPLE OF THE 1875 90-CENT CONTINENTAL BANK NOTE SPECIAL PRINTING.
Our census of Scott 177 contains 48 examples, including one in the Miller collection owned by The New York Public Library, leaving 47 available to collectors. Only seventeen have perforations intact on all four sides, and of these only nine are confirmed as sound. Many have poor centering.
Census no. 177-UNC-47. With 2005 P.S.E. certificate
18,000
8,500