Sale 1242 — The Gordon Eubanks Collection: United States 1851 to 1856 Imperforate Issue

Sale Date — Tuesday-Wednesday, 12-13 October, 2021

Category — Twelve-Cent: Domestic Covers (Scott 17)

Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
423
c
Sale 1242, Lot 423, Twelve-Cent: Domestic Covers (Scott 17)12c Black (17). Large margins to just touched, horizontal crease at extreme edge of stamp at top, tied by partly clear strike of San Francisco circular datestamp on April 15, 1853 datelined blue folded letter to Boston Mass., "pr. Northerner" ship-name directive and carried on that steamer on April 17, arriving Panama May 3, after crossing the Isthmus to Aspinwall carried on the Crescent City, arriving New York May 24, Very Fine and scarce double 6c rate use before the April 1855 rate change

E. 500-750
325