Sale 959 — United States Stamps
Sale Date — Monday-Wednesday, 23-25 June, 2008
Category — Revenues (First thru Third Issues)
Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
3270
2c Blue & Black, Center Inverted (R104a). Choice centering, bright colors, neat "1/4/1872" ms. cancel, certificate notes "small natural inclusion crop out at center", utterly trivialEXTREMELY FINE. A MAGNIFICENT EXAMPLE OF THE 2-CENT SECOND ISSUE WITH INVERTED CENTER.
The Joyce, Zoellner and Tolman stamps are consecutively dated in manuscript by the same user (12/27/1871, 1/2/1872 and 1/4/1872, respectively). With 2006 P.S.E. certificate
6,000
10,000