Lot
3108
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Revenue - First Issue specialized collection, 1862-1871. Comprehensive collection housed in Scott album, with specialized sections of plate varieties with the vast range of double transfers and plate cracks, plate and inscription blocks and pairs, cancels, many multiples including imprints and oddities throughout; front page with proofs and a scarce bicolor essay, many highlights throughout including 1¢ express imperf multiples and transfer variety, 2¢-5¢ double transfer and cancel section with hundreds of choice cancels, good later imperf and part perf multiples including 3¢ telegraph imperf pair and several part perf, 3¢ playing cards perf x2 and 4¢, 10¢ certificate silk block of 4, the discovery copy of the 20¢ foreign exchange double transfer, 25¢ multiples including #R45a block of 4, #R52b pair, 25¢ issues with San Francisco cancels, #R54a block of 4, mid-range to $1 values again with a multitude of varieties and multiples, #R80c pair and singles, many better $2 & $3 multiples, #R84c block of 4 and 6, #R95a pair, R94a multiples, #R97c shades and multiples, #R98a pairs, R98c block of 4, strip of 4 & 5,#R101c singles and pairs and 4 examples of the $200 including one with blue handstamp cancel; condition throughout is far above the norm with a extensive amount of variety, a truly must see to appreciate. Estimate $15,000 - 20,000.
Realized: $32,500