1c Blue, Type II (7). Positions 40/50/60R2, vertical strip of three, ample to huge margins including "er, Casilear & Co. BANK NOTE ENGRAVERS. Phila. New York, Boston & Cincinnati" imprint and "No. 2." plate number, manuscript cancels and partly eradicated "Business Corner, Iowa" manuscript postmark in sheet margin (it can be seen in the Knapp sale catalogue), bottom stamp light diagonal crease and middle stamp short internal crease

FINE APPEARANCE. A BEAUTIFUL AND RARE ONE-CENT 1851 MULTIPLE SHOWING THE COMPLETE PLATE NUMBER FROM PLATE 2, ALONG WITH MOST OF THE IMPRINT.

Ex Knapp (who also owned the cover from which the strip was removed), Fleckenstein, Cowitt, Cipolla and Allan Fox

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