Sale 976 — United States Stamps

Sale Date — Tuesday-Friday, 29 September-2 October, 2009

Category — The Martin Richardson Gold Medal Collection of U.S. Post Office Seals (Typeset Seals)

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Sale 976, Lot 2646, The Martin Richardson Gold Medal Collection of U.S. Post Office Seals (Typeset Seals)Black on White, Northfield Mass. Typeset Seal (LOX26). Balanced margins, ms. "Rec'd open", small part of Mass. circular datestamp (presumably Northfield), thin spot, Very Fine appearance, the unique listing example of the larger format Northfield Mass. typeset, a great rarity of official seal collecting, ex Lyons, illustrated and described in detail in Kotanchik (p. 223-224), illustrated in Scott Catalogue where noted, "No. LOX26 used is valued with small fault", despite being the unique listing example it curiously has a lower Scott Retail value than its smaller format Northfield predecessor, No. LOX25, of which at least three are known (and all have faults)

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