Sale 975 — United States Stamps

Sale Date — Tuesday-Thursday, 23-25 June, 2009

Category — 1851-56 Issue (Scott 5-17)

Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
1113
 
Sale 975, Lot 1113, 1851-56 Issue (Scott 5-17)1c Blue, Ty. IIIa (8A). Plate 4, huge margins at left and bottom, full at right and mostly ample at top, intense shade and proof-like impression, neat town datestamp and trace of red cancel, this stamp was certified by P.S.E. in 2002 as a Type III but certified by the P.F. in 2009 as a Type IIIa, bottom line appears to be slightly broken but obscured by cancel, plates most closely to Position 25L4 (Type IIIa in Neinken book) and so offered as a Scott No. 8A, with 2002 P.S.E. (as Type III No. 8) and 2009 P.F. certificates

1,200
1,600