5c Carmine, Imperforate, Error (485). Mint N.H., massive margins all around incl. part of five adjoining stamps, brilliant color

EXTREMELY FINE GEM. A BEAUTIFUL MINT NEVER-HINGED EXAMPLE OF THE 5-CENT CARMINE IMPERFORATE ERROR.

During the course of production of the normal 2c plate No. 7942, three positions were noted to be defective. The plate was returned to the siderographer, who burnished out the three positions and mistakenly re-entered them using a transfer roll for the 5c stamp. The error passed unnoticed and the sheets were issued to the public Perf 10, Imperforate and Perf 11 (Scott 467, 485 and 505). The imperforate is by far the rarest of the three.

With 2010 P.S.E. certificate (Superb 98; SMQ does not price this issue, as a way of trying to dissuade people from breaking stamps out of multiples.

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