1c Blue, Ty. II, Plate 3 (7 var). Positions 67-68L3, horizontal pair, huge margins to clear incl. part of adjoining stamps at top, rich color on crisp paper, unobtrusive strikes of grid cancel

EXTREMELY FINE. A SCARCE PAIR OF THE 1851 ONE-CENT TYPE II FROM PLATE 3.

For an unknown reason -- possibly a severe defect that arose in the plate -- very few stamps were printed from the new Plate 3 before it was retired, and surviving examples are rare.

Ex Emerson and Fleckenstein.

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