5c Red Brown (1). Positions 91-92R with enormous bottom left corner sheet margins, 6mm at left and an amazing 13mm at bottom, huge margins other sides, rich color and detailed impression, neat strikes of red grid cancels and part of matching town datestamp, tiny corner crease in extreme tip of the sheet margin

EXTREMELY FINE GEM. THIS IS THE FAMOUS "NORCROSS" PAIR -- WIDELY CONSIDERED TO BE THE FINEST PAIR IN EXISTENCE OF THE 5-CENT 1847 ISSUE.

Ex Emerson, Norcross and Klein. With 1975 P.F. certificate. Last offered in our 2002 Rarities sale, where it realized $32,500 hammer

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