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24¢ Carmine Rose & Blue, Center Inverted (C3a). Position 57, rich colors on bright paper, fresh original gum, small light trace of hinging EXTREMELY FINE. ONE OF THE BEST-CENTERED AND FRESHEST
STAMPS FROM THE ORIGINAL SHEET OF 100. FOR THE COLLECTOR SEEKING THE FINEST QUALITY, THIS STAMP IS THE IDEAL INVERTED JENNY”. The original sheet of 100 was discovered and acquired by William T. Robey at the New York Avenue post office in
Washington D.C. on May 14, 1918. This stamp, with Positions 47-48 and 58, at one time comprised a block of four owned by Eugene Klein. After Klein’s death in 1944, his daughter, Dolores Klein Hertz, was instructed to claim a sealed container
held by a Philadelphia bank in accordance with his Will. Resting on top of the various stamp collections in this container was the block of inverts. The Klein-Hertz block was sold by Mrs. Hertz to Robert A. Siegel, who in turn placed it with
Raymond H. Weill Co. The block was later sold by the Weills to a collector, Mr. Phillips, whose philatelic estate they acquired in 1968 for just over $4 million. The Weills received Philatelic Foundation certificate number 10,000 prior to splitting
the block into singles at their client’s request. This example comes from the position next to the Zoellner copy (Position 58), which realized $525,000 hammer in our 2005 Rarities sale, still a record price for the Inverted Jenny”. Ex Colonel
Edward H. R. Green, Eugene Klein, Dolores Klein Hertz, B. D. Phillips and William C. Mack. With 1988 P.F. certificate. (Image) |
400,000.00
SOLD for $850,000.00
Will close during Public Auction |