5c Red Brown (75). Warm color in the true Red Brown shade, nicely contrasted by green "Paid" in circle handstamp, small paper wrinkle at top right not mentioned on either accompanying certificate

VERY FINE AND CHOICE. AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE EXAMPLE OF THE 1862 5-CENT RED BROWN CANCELLED IN GREEN.

A review of major sales of cancellations, including Haas ("Distinguished Connoisseur"), Rohloff, Grunin and Klein, failed to find another with a green cancel. We have offered only one other since 1994, which originally formed a pair with the stamp offered here.

With 2004 P.S.E. certificate as a pair and 2011 P.F. certificate as this single. The other stamp in the pair realized $7,500 hammer in our 2005 Rarities sale.

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