3c Rose, Ty. I (25). Mint N.H., without recut inner lines, brilliant color, choice centering for this difficult issue, fully-formed perforations all around with a couple of usual unpunched perf holes at top and bottom

VERY FINE AND CHOICE. AN EXTREMELY RARE MINT NEVER-HINGED EXAMPLE OF THE 1857 3-CENT TYPE I PERFORATED. PROBABLY THE FINEST MINT NEVER-HINGED SINGLE EXTANT.

Until Toppan Carpenter made new 3c plates with wider spaces between stamps to accommodate the perforations, they simply perforated sheets printed from the earlier Type I plates, beginning in early 1857. Unlike its Type II counterpart, examples of 3c perforated Type I stamps are rare in original-gum condition. Furthermore, probably fewer than a dozen could be reliably certified as Mint Never-Hinged. Finally, we doubt that a finer Mint N.H. single exists, and certainly none has been offered at auction in recent years.

With 1974 P.F. certificate. P.S.E. encapsulated (VF 80). Unpriced as Mint N.H. in SMQ or Scott. Without any published values, we have estimated the value of this Mint N.H. rarity.

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