2c Black, D. Grill (84). Detailed impression, clear grill, neat strike of blue quartered cork cancel

VERY FINE. A SCARCE SOUND AND WELL-CENTERED USED EXAMPLE OF THE RARE 1868 2-CENT D GRILL WITH A BLUE CANCEL.

The device equipped with the D Grill was refitted with the E Grill on or about February 9, 1868. Based on the earliest known uses of the 2c D Grill (2/15/68) and 3c E Grill (2/12/68), it is our theory that the conversion from the D to E Grill took place only a day or so after sheets of 2c stamps were first run through the D-equipped machine. The great rarity of 2c D Grills, relative to all other regular-production grills, bears out this theory.

Ex Drews. With 2018 P.F. certificate

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