1c Blue, Ty. Ia (6). Plate 4, mostly ample margins with bottom plumes visible, deep shade, neat strike of grid cancel, tiny scuff on head, faint pressed-out vertical crease

FINE APPEARING EXAMPLE OF THE RARE 1851 ONE-CENT TYPE IA IMPERFORATE.

Type Ia, showing the full design at bottom, was furnished only by 18 of the 200 subjects on Plate 4 (the remaining two bottom-row positions were sub-type Ic).

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