24c Purple on Cream entire, Die 68, Centennial Special Printing (U203 var; USPSS 609). Size 25, knife 122, watermark 2, unused, with printed return request at left, bright shade and intense impression, Very Fine, the Centennial Special Printing entires in the large size 25 envelopes are particularly rare, the UPSS Catalog states less than six sets of these are reported to exist (Nos. 596, 603a, 609 offered here, 618 and 636), ex Barkhausen with his backstamp, UPSS value

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