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1869 Pictorial Issue Inverts
Lot Sym. Lot Description  
702 P 15c-90c 1869 Pictorial Inverts, Plate Proofs on Card (120aP4, 121aP4, 122aP4, 129aP4).> Large margins all around, rich colors and detailed impressions<><>^EXTREMELY FINE. A BEAUTIFUL SET OF 1869 PICTORIAL ISSUE INVERT PLATE PROOFS. ONLY ONE SHEET O15c-90c 1869 Pictorial Inverts, Plate Proofs on Card (120aP4, 121aP4, 122aP4, 129aP4). Large margins all around, rich colors and detailed impressions

EXTREMELY FINE. A BEAUTIFUL SET OF 1869 PICTORIAL ISSUE INVERT PLATE PROOFS. ONLY ONE SHEET OF 100 OF EACH WAS PRODUCED.

All known examples of these invert proofs come from the sheets in the Earl of Crawford collection. (Image)

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 10,750.00

SOLD for $9,500.00
Will close during Public Auction
703   15c Brown & Blue, Ty. II, Center Inverted (119b).> Intense colors, bold quartered cork cancel, wide margins and almost perfectly centered, repaired and a grill added for effect<><>^EXTREMELY FINE APPEARANCE. THE MARGINS AND CENTERING OF THIS RARE 115c Brown & Blue, Ty. II, Center Inverted (119b). Intense colors, bold quartered cork cancel, wide margins and almost perfectly centered, repaired and a grill added for effect

EXTREMELY FINE APPEARANCE. THE MARGINS AND CENTERING OF THIS RARE 15-CENT 1869 PICTORIAL INVERT ARE IMPRESSIVE. ONLY 93 COPIES ARE RECORDED IN OUR CENSUS.

Our census of 1869 Inverts, published in the February 1999 Chronicle and updated with three new stamps, contains 93 examples of the 15c Invert, including three unused and 90 used (one in the British Library's Tapling collection).

Census No. 119b-CAN-C03. With copy of 1974 P.F. certificate (Image)

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 17,500.00

SOLD for $6,500.00
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704   24c Green & Violet, Center Inverted (120b).> Three wide margins and perfs well clear at left, beautiful rich colors and sharp impressions, lightly cancelled by circle of wedges, <red foreign transit datestamp> at lower right<><>^VERY FINE AND CHOIC24c Green & Violet, Center Inverted (120b). Three wide margins and perfs well clear at left, beautiful rich colors and sharp impressions, lightly cancelled by circle of wedges, red foreign transit datestamp at lower right

VERY FINE AND CHOICE SOUND EXAMPLE OF THE 24-CENT 1869 INVERT.

Our published 1869 Invert census (with unpublished updates) contains 88 copies of the perforated 24c Invert, including four unused stamps and multiples. Very few are sound or as attractive as the stamp offered here.

Census No. 120b-CAN-CW04. Ex Twigg-Smith. With 1970 and 2001 P.F. certificates. The Scott value for No. 120b is for "fine centered examples with only minimal faults." (Image)

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 20,000.00

SOLD for $90,000.00
Will close during Public Auction
705   30c Ultramarine & Carmine, Center Inverted (121b).> Choice centering with <wide-spaced margins,> incredibly rich and bright colors on fresh white paper, clear strike of circle of eight wedges cancel and part of <red foreign transit handstamp> at lowe30c Ultramarine & Carmine, Center Inverted (121b). Choice centering with wide-spaced margins, incredibly rich and bright colors on fresh white paper, clear strike of circle of eight wedges cancel and part of red foreign transit handstamp at lower left

VERY FINE AND CHOICE. A RARE SOUND EXAMPLE OF THE 30-CENT 1869 PICTORIAL INVERT WITH WIDE-SPACED TOP AND BOTTOM MARGINS AND PART OF A RED FOREIGN TRANSIT MARKING.

Our published census of 30c 1869 Invert (with unpublished updates) contains a total of 44 stamps, including 7 unused and 37 used. The stamp offered here is one of five in the Wide-Spaced centering category (see Chronicle No. 138, May 1988, page 123). The Wide-Spaced stamps have extra wide top and bottom margins. Three of the five Wide-Spaced stamps are centered slightly to left, as is this copy.

Census No. 121b-CAN-WS04. With 1978 and 2005 P.F. certificates (Image)

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 80,000.00

SOLD for $155,000.00
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