
Lot
800
Carrier, 1875, 1¢ Eagle, Special Printing, brown o.g., single short perf at top, otherwise Very Fine. Scott No. LO6 $175+.
From an article on the 1875 reprints written my "C.H.C." and published in the May 1875 issue of the American Journal of Philately, comes the following, "On the 1861-9 issues of the reprints (as also on the Eagle) simple gum arabic seems to have been used…the 1847, 1857 and 1870 issues of the reprints are not gummed at all.