Closed Auction
By: Cherrystone Auctions
lot # 5 - United States 1875 Reproductions of the 1847 Issue
Tuesday Dec 19, 2017 10:00 to Wednesday Dec 20, 2017 18:00 America/New_York
Last date for bids:
Dec 19, 09:00 EST
1875 5c red brown and 10c black, plate proofs on card, complete sheets of fifty, each with large outer margins, 5c showing plate scratches between pos. 31 and 41, 5c with minor corner bend and both with few inconsequential adhesions, v.f. and extremely rare exhibition showpiece (Clarence Brazer estimated in his 1947 article that "probably five or six pairs of sheets of 50 plate proofs on cardboard are known")
Cat. Val. $27,000
Estimate: $25000
3-4P4
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