2c Rose, Double Impression, "Squeezed" Double Impression (499g, 499g var.). Horizontal strip of ten with natural s.e.'s at bottom and left showing most of arrow at right, extremely mixed centering, some hinge reinforcements, first three stamps at left are double impressions, the fourth is
the rare 15mm wide double impression with an appearance of having been "squeezed" together (strikingly narrow stamp), first double impression with thins, others sound, a very rare and fabulous error, Scott Retail for regular double impressions is $200.00 each, the 15mm wide one listed but unpriced, ex Sheriff, it was later sold at auction as part of the Weiss collection in 1997, further research indicates that this strip or one of the other nine from the lone pane of 100 discovered was sold for $120.00 in George Sloane's sale of the Max Johl collection in 1939
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