St. Louis, Missouri, 10c Black on Greenish (11X2). Type I, Position 2, unused (no gum), full margins to clear, described in much earlier auctions with a small tear and faint thin at corner, but later treated and certified as sound

VERY FINE APPEARANCE. A RARE UNUSED EXAMPLE OF THE 10-CENT ST. LOUIS POSTMASTER'S PROVISIONAL ON GREENISH PAPER.

A review of The Philatelic Foundation's records indicates that approximately ten unused examples of 11X2 are recorded. By far the finest is the incomparable original-gum corner-margin copy from the Frelinghuysen collection (realized $150,000 hammer in Siegel Sale 1020), which is the only example with gum. Only four others are sound or potentially sound. This stamp was described in the 1938 Crocker sale as having a sealed tear and in the 1955 Waterhouse sale as having a "little split at bottom and faint thin." Sometime before 1989 the stamp was made "sound" and certified as such. We offer it with the flaws disclosed.

Ex Crocker and Waterhouse. With 1989 P.F. certificate.

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