Sale 973 — 2009 Rarities of the World

Sale Date — Saturday, 13 June, 2009

Category — 1869 Pictorial Issue

Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
104
 
Sale 973, Lot 104, 1869 Pictorial Issue15c Brown & Blue, Ty. II, Center Inverted (119b). Rich color, neat strike of "Highland" circular datestamp, repaired at top left, corner perfs added at bottom left, creases, reperfed at right

VERY FINE APPEARANCE. AN AFFORDABLE AND PRESENTABLE EXAMPLE OF THE 15-CENT 1869 PICTORIAL ISSUE WITH CENTER INVERTED.

Our census of 1869 Inverts, published in the February 1999 Chronicle and updated with three new stamps, contains 93 examples of the 15c Invert, including three unused and 90 used (one in the British Library's Tapling collection).

Census No. 119b-CAN-CE-02. With 1956 and 2009 P.F. certificates

17,500
5,500