5c Carmine, Imperforate, Error (485). Double error in a block of twelve, bottom error Mint N.H., top error lightly hinged, large margins all around including parts of all adjoining stamps, brilliant color, tiny picked-out inclusion in one 2c (position 9) and small translucency in right margin next to another 2c (position 6), both error stamps completely sound

EXTREMELY FINE EXAMPLE OF THE 5-CENT IMPERFORATE DOUBLE ERROR IN A BLOCK OF TWELVE.

During the course of production of the normal 2c plate no. 7942, three positions were noted to be defective. The plate was returned to the siderographer, who burnished out the three positions and mistakenly re-entered them using a transfer roll for the 5c stamp. The error passed unnoticed and the sheets were issued to the public Perf 10, Imperforate and Perf 11 (Scott 467, 485 and 505). The imperforate is by far the rarest of the three.

With 1952 and 2019 P.F. certificates. Scott value as hinged double error block without premium for the Mint N.H. error

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