10c Blue, Special Delivery, Dots in Curved Frame Above Messenger (E5a). Mint N.H. with huge 37mm bottom plate no. 882 selvage, outstanding centering with wide margins, deep rich rich color

EXTREMELY FINE GEM MINT NEVER-HINGED EXAMPLE OF THE 1895 10-CENT WATERMARKED SPECIAL DELIVERY ISSUE WITH DOTS ABOVE THE MESSENGER VARIETY. ESPECIALLY DESIRABLE WITH THE MASSIVE PLATE NUMBER SELVAGE.

The Dots in Curved Frame above Messenger variety (E5a) comes only from plate 882. It is priced in Scott at nearly double the normal E5.

With 2020 P.S.E. certificate (XF-Superb 95; unpriced in SMQ above the grade of 90). Only one stamp grades higher (at 98, last offered in our Morton Sale 1219). The example offered here originally formed a strip of three with the previous lot and the example graded 98.

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