12c Black, Re-Issue (107). Intense shade and impression on bright paper, well-balanced margins, bold strike of duplex cancel

VERY FINE AND CHOICE. A RARE USED EXAMPLE OF THE 12-CENT 1861 RE-ISSUE. ONLY 16 ARE INCLUDED IN OUR CENSUS, OF WHICH ONLY SEVEN ARE CONFIRMED AS SOUND.

The 12c Re-Issue was printed from a new plate of 100 subjects, compared to the original plate of 200 in two panes. 10,000 stamps were printed (100 impressions). Only 389 of the 12c were sold; the remaining 9,611 were destroyed on July 16, 1884.

Our census of Scott 107 used, at https://siegelauctions.com/census/us/scott/107 , records only 16 examples. Of these, only nine are potentially sound. Two of the nine have not been examined since the early 1970s and are not confirmed as sound, leaving only seven confirmed sound copies. We have offered only one other sound example since 2013.

Census no. 107-CAN-09. With 1998 P.F. and 2006 P.S.E. certificates (VF 80; SMQ $17,500.00).

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