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VERY FINE. AN OUTSTANDING RECONSTRUCTION OF THE "FORKED LIGHTNING" CRACK OF PLATE 3, ASSEMBLED BY MORTIMER L. NEINKEN USING CHOICE EXAMPLES, INCLUDING TWO RARE UNUSED COPIES.
The exceptional nature of the "Forked Lightning" crack is discussed in the Neinken book (pages 228-229), and the great rarity of examples is underscored in that passage (as observed by Ashbrook and updated by Neinken).
Ex Neinken (Image)
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VERY FINE. A REMARKABLE COVER, BEARING A STRIP OF THE 1851 ONE-CENT FROM PLATE 3, WHICH NOT ONLY CONTAINS A RARE AND DESIRABLE CRACKED PLATE POSITION (24L3) BUT WAS PRIVATELY ROULETTED JUST AS THE FIRST REGULAR SUPPLY OF THE NEWLY-PERFORATED 1857 ISSUE REACHED NEW YORK CITY.
Little is known about this unofficial roulette. In the 1851 Issue Sesquicentennial book, Wilson Hulme postulated that the 3c stamps with this roulette were done by hand and not by a machine. New York received its supply of perforated stamps (under the new contract) in the third week of July 1857. Therefore, the window for use of these roulettes would have been extremely narrow -- all are known used in July of that year. He also mentions the possibility that one may exist on a 1c stamp, which was probably based on the cover offered here. This cover is specifically cited by Ashbrook (see Neinken book, page 232), who acquired it in the 1917 Morgenthau sale of the George H. Worthington collection.
Ex Worthington, Ashbrook and Oakley. (Image)