Sale 905 — United States Stamps
Sale Date — Monday, 12 December, 2005
Category — 1908-09 Washington-Franklin Issues (Scott 331 thru 356)
Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
2399
1c Green, Attleboro Stamp Co. Private Affixing-Machine Coil (343 var). Pair, each stamp with tiny notch at bottom (used by the machine to advance the stamps), rich color, h.r., right perforation separated, still Fine, scarce pair, in 1909 the Attleboro Stamp Company employed a stamp-affixing machine to apply postage to bulk mailings of its price lists and editions of the Attleboro Philatelist; although the company served stamp collectors, the Attleboro coil appears to have been a purely utilitarian product, limited in its scope to the basic 1c and 2c stamps necessary for mailing and not intended to create new varieties for collectors; examples of these coils are scarce to rare
1,300
1,500