Sale 978 — The Beverly Hills Collection of Outstanding United States Stamps

Sale Date — Friday, 4 December, 2009

Category — Revenues

Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
1164
 
Sale 978, Lot 1164, Revenues$1.90 Foreign Exchange, Imperforate (R80a). Large margins to full, fresh and bright color, neat strike of "Kingan & Co. N.Y. Dec. 11, 1865" double-circle datestamp

VERY FINE. A RARE AND DESIRABLE EXAMPLE OF THE $1.90 FOREIGN EXCHANGE IMPERFORATE, ESPECIALLY DESIRABLE CANCELLED SOLELY BY THE HANDSTAMP.

It is believed that of the 9,000 examples originally issued imperforate, 312 were returned for perforating. It is not known how many were used. A review using Power Search found only seven unduplicated copies.

With 2008 P.S.E. certificate (F-VF 75; Revenues are unlisted in SMQ)

10,000
9,000