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VERY FINE. AN IMPORTANT FULL-FACE McKINLEY POSTAL CARD SPECIMEN OF GREAT RARITY.
USPCC value (Image)
VERY FINE APPEARANCE. THIS IS THE ONLY KNOWN COMBINATION OF USPCC SPECIMEN NUMBERS SP-2 TYPE A-10 AND SP-4.
The Stamp Division marking is the exact date that the PMG ordered all 1,625,000 of the inferior quality Full-Face cards destroyed. USPCC listed this in the 2005 catalog as S21Sp-4var and reclassified it in the 2010 catalog as a proof (Image)
VERY FINE AND CHOICE EXAMPLE OF THE ONE-CENT BLACK FULL-FACE McKINLEY POSTAL CARD. EXTREMELY RARE WITHOUT THE PRINTED ADDRESS AND ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE FALBERG COLLECTION
As an indication of rarity, the Scott Catalogue prices the card without printed address at $9,000.00, versus $3,500.00 with the printed address. The entire stock of 500 cards was inadvertently sent from Washington to Booth, Dailey & Ivins in New York where they were shortly thereafter pre-printed with their address and garbage dumping information on the back to be filled out by the tug captain. As a result of the printing there remained no Mint cards for collectors. This "Unmarked Specimen" long ago became accepted as a full mint card in order to allow collectors to have a complete unused collection. Albert Daggett, the contractor for the printing of the Full Face card, was never able to satisfy the Post Office in Washington due to sub-standard quality of his productions. All submitted samples were rejected and as a result the entire stock of 1,625,000 cards was ordered destroyed by the PMG on April 29, 1902.
USPCC $9,000.00 (Image)
VERY FINE AND CHOICE. A LOVELY UNUSED EXAMPLE OF THE FULL-FACE McKINLEY "GARBAGE" CARD.
Only one box of 500 was inadvertently released from Washington and all were preprinted shortly after receipt. It is generally believed that there are about 150 surviving unused cards. USPCC $3,750.00 (Image)