St. Louis Mo., 5c Black on Bluish Pelure (11X7). Type III, Position 5, ample margins to clear, usual pen cancel and also part of red "Paid" handstamp, typically fragile pelure paper has been partially repaired

FINE APPEARANCE. THE 5-CENT ON PELURE IS ONE OF THE RAREST OF THE ST. LOUIS "BEARS" PROVISIONALS.

Pelure paper was used for the last printing after the 20c denomination on Positions 1 and 3 was burnished out and the 5c values were re-engraved. At the time of this modification to the plate, Position 5 was slightly altered by adding a dot within the bottom ball of the figure "5", as visible on this example. Pelure stamps are almost always faulty and often seriously defective. The last example we offered at auction was in 2003, a stamp which was rebacked.

With 1990 P.S.E. certificate

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