Sale 1278 — United States Stamps

Sale Date — Tuesday-Thursday, 21-23 March, 2023

Category — 1908-12 Issues (Scott 331-396)

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Sale 1278, Lot 3578, 1908-12 Issues (Scott 331-396)8c Olive Green, Bluish (363). Original gum, deep rich color on nicely blued paper, light vertical crease and reperfed at right

FINE APPEARING ORIGINAL-GUM EXAMPLE OF THE RARE 8-CENT BLUISH PAPER.

The June 1910 Third Assistant Postmaster General’s report states that 4,000 (ten sheets) of the 8c were printed on Bluish Paper. It is believed that none of the 4c and 8c Bluish Paper stamps were distributed to post offices, and that all of the examples in collectors’ hands reached the market through the Travers-Steinmetz exchange and the 1914 National Museum trades to H. F. Colman (12 copies) and Nassau Stamp Company (65 copies).

With 1956 (clear) and 2019 P.F. certificates

30,000
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