Sale 997 — United States Stamps

Sale Date — Tuesday-Friday, 26-29 October, 2010

Category — The Falberg Collection of Postal Cards (UX17 Full Face McKinley)

Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
6407
c
Sale 997, Lot 6407, The Falberg Collection of Postal Cards (UX17 Full Face McKinley)1c Black on Buff, Full-Face McKinley Postal Card, 60.6mm x 2mm Gray Black "SPECIMEN-Not good for postage" handstamp, plus "Stamp Division P.O. Dept. Apr 29 1902" Production Specimen Circular Datestamp (UX17S). Additional two Line Imprint at Bottom "Die Proof of McKinley Postal Card. Issue of 1901.", negligible corner crease

VERY FINE APPEARANCE. THIS IS THE ONLY KNOWN COMBINATION OF USPCC SPECIMEN NUMBERS SP-2 TYPE A-10 AND SP-4.

The Stamp Division marking is the exact date that the PMG ordered all 1,625,000 of the inferior quality Full-Face cards destroyed. USPCC listed this in the 2005 catalog as S21Sp-4var and reclassified it in the 2010 catalog as a proof

E. 2,000-3,000
3,750