10c Black (2). Horizontal pair, original gum, lightly hinged, huge margins to clear incl. part of adjoining stamps at top, sharp proof-like impression, left stamp with trivial small corner crease at top left, right stamp with faint vertical crease at left (described in the Caspary sale and by the P.F. in 1956 as the left stamp sound and the right stamp with a gum crease)

EXTREMELY FINE APPEARING AND PHENOMENALLY RARE ORIGINAL-GUM PAIR OF THE 10-CENT 1847 ISSUE IN REMARKABLY CHOICE CONDITION. ONE OF THE MOST OUTSTANDING PAIRS EXTANT.

To underscore the rarity of any original-gum multiple of the 10c 1847, there are only three unused blocks recorded (two with original gum), one of which is contained in the Hirzel collection at the Swiss PTT Museum. The original-gum block in the Zoellner sale, ex Green, Klein and Kapiloff, realized $130,000 hammer in 1998 (Siegel Sale 804, lot 15). The superb pair offered here was a featured item in the Caspary collection, and it was the largest 10c 1847 multiple owned by him (along with two other pairs).

Ex Caspary. With 1956 and 2002 P.F. certificates

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