Sale 1290 — United States Stamps

Sale Date — Wednesday-Thursday, 28-29 June, 2023

Category — Officials featuring Special Pintings from the Mooz Estate

Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
1612
S
Sale 1290, Lot 1612, Officials featuring Special Pintings from the Mooz Estate1c-90c Treasury, Specimen Ovpt. (O72S-O82S). Complete set, without gum as issued, deep rich colors, a few with decent centering and nearly all sides with full perfs, a few small flaws may be encountered but the stamps in this set were selected from a large group owned by Mooz, picking examples without obvious or major faults

OVERALL FINE-VERY FINE COMPLETE SET OF THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT SPECIAL PRINTING -- ONE OF THE TWO RAREST OF THE "CENTS" VALUES AMONG THE DEPARTMENTAL SPECIAL PRINTINGS.

Only 72 of the 90c were sold -- the lowest among all the 1c-90c Special Printings, meaning no more than 72 complete Treasury sets can exist. Between 74 to 99 of the other values were sold (excluding the common 1c and the slightly more available 2c and 7c), for a total of 646 stamps. This makes the Treasury Department Special Printing one of the two rarest sets overall of the 1c to 90c issues, along with the Interior Department, which has 635 sold.

14,330
2,400