Sale 967 — Important and Superb United States Stamps
Sale Date — Tuesday-Friday, 16-19 December, 2008
Category — 1918-20 Offset Printing Issues (Scott 525-536)
Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
4897
3c Violet, Ty. III, Printed on Both Sides (529b). Horizontal block of ten with bottom right corner selvage and plate no. 8629, some hinged reinforcement, the impressions of the reverse are inverted with respect to the normal side and are shifted to where one stamp receives a very off-center complete impression while the one above only perhaps one-quarter impression, the same is true on the back of the blank right selvage, we have cataloged this piece as two error stamps despite the second one only having a partial but is technically "printed on both sides", rare block
5,000
2,000
