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United States 1917-29 Issues continued...

LotNo.

Symbol

CatNo.

Lot Description

221

558

1923 6c red orange, right margin plate number block of six, n.h., marginal wrinkles well away from the stamps, fine, cat. $600 (Cat No. 558) (Image)

SOLD for $210.00
Will close during Public Auction

222

558

1923 6c red orange, left margin plate number block of six, n.h., fresh color, fine-v.f., cat. $600 (Cat No. 558) (Image)

SOLD for $260.00
Will close during Public Auction

223

561

1923 9c rose, left margin plate number block of six, n.h., marginal wrinkle well away from the stamps, fine-v.f., cat. $375 (Cat No. 561) (Image)

SOLD for $160.00
Will close during Public Auction

224

562

1923 10c orange, bottom margin plate block of six, hinged in margin (stamps n.h.), fresh color, v.f., cat. $275 (Cat No. 562) (Image)

SOLD for $280.00
Will close during Public Auction

225

578

1923 1c green, Rotary, perf. 11x10, top margin plate number block of four, top stamps hinged, bottom n.h., upper left stamp with some perf. toning, fine, cat. $1000 (Cat No. 578) (Image)

SOLD for $250.00
Will close during Public Auction

226

579

1923 Rotary Press Printing, Perf. 11x10, 2c carmine, block of 36, four middle stamps h.r., balance n.h., well centered for issue, fine-v.f., cat. $4780 (Cat No. 579) (Image)

CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction

227

594

1923 1c green, perf. 11, part original gum, usual centering, fresh color, tiny thin spot, otherwise fine (Siegel census of Scott 594 records only 19 unused stamps, of which many have perforations cutting in on one or more sides, or have faults). This is one of only eleven known with original gum and considered to be one of the great rarities of 20th Century United States stamps, with 1971 and 2008 PFCs (catalogue value is for perforations touching the design on one side) cat. $65000 (Cat No. 594) (Image) (image 227a)

SOLD for $23,000.00
Will close during Public Auction

228

595

1923 2c carmine, top margin plate number block of four with Star, h.r., clipped perforations at upper left, otherwise fine, cat. $2100 (Cat No. 595) (Image)

CLOSED
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229

611,612

1923 Harding, 2c black, plate number block of four, also imperf. left sheet margin Plate Block of six, n.h., fine, cat. $590 (Cat No. 611,612) (Image)

CLOSED
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230

669-673

1929 1c-4c Nebraska, five different plate number blocks of four, n.h., fine-v.f., cat. $985 (Cat No. 669-673) (Image) (image 230a)

SOLD for $210.00
Will close during Public Auction

231

675

1929 6c Nebraska, plate number block of four, l.h., fine, cat. $525 (Cat No. 675) (Image)

SOLD for $130.00
Will close during Public Auction

232

676

1929 7c Nebraska, plate number block of four, n.h., fine, cat. $500 (Cat No. 676) (Image)

SOLD for $150.00
Will close during Public Auction

233

677

1929 8c Nebraska, plate number block of four, n.h., fine, cat. $550 (Cat No. 677) (Image)

CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction

234

678

1929 9c Nebraska, plate number block of four, n.h., fine, cat. $675 (Cat No. 678) (Image)

SOLD for $190.00
Will close during Public Auction

United States 1930-79 Issues

LotNo.

Symbol

CatNo.

Lot Description

235

634 (CF1)

1931 Postal Counterfeits, 2c carmine Perf. 11.65, block of 12, n.h., fine-v.f., rare, cat. $2700 (Cat No. 634 (CF1)) (Image)

CLOSED
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236

634 (CF1)

1931 Postal Counterfeits, 2c carmine Perf. 11.65, block of 32, n.h., some perf. separations at bottom, fine-v.f., rare multiple, cat. $7200 (Cat No. 634 (CF1)) (Image)

CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction

237

703var

1931 Yorktown, 2c carmine red & black, variety "black color omitted", n.h., fine, with 2017 Philatelic Foundation certificate stating "it is a genuine, never hinged Scott 703 variety, with faint albino impression of each vignette portrait, but with faint traces of black in the lower left area of the left vignette, and at the bottom of the right vignette". In each case, these "traces of black" are virtually impossible to see. A splendid and spectacular variety (Cat No. 703var) (Image)

CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction

238

1944 (9 Aug) Prisoner of War card (little reduced at top) to Germany, sent by an inmate in Camp Papago Park, with U.S. Censor and German "Gepruft" cachet handstamped on arrival (a POW facility located in Papago Park in the eastern part of Phoenix. It consisted of five compounds, four for enlisted men and one for officers. Called "Schlaraffenland" - "the land of milk and honey", by its mostly U-boat-crew inmates) (Image)

CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction

239

1789var

1979 15c John Paul Jones, with dramatic perforation shift resulting in text nearly omitted at bottom, n.h., v.f. (Cat No. 1789var) (Image)

CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction

United States Modern Issues

LotNo.

Symbol

CatNo.

Lot Description

240

1610c

1979 $1 Candle holder, brown (engraved) color inverted, n.h., fresh, v.f. Popularly called the "C.I.A. Invert", a single pane of 100 stamps was purchased at the McLean Va. Post Office by employees of the C.I.A., for use on mail from the agency. They noticed the error, pooled together funds to buy a replacement sheet and kept the pane for themselves. When it was discovered who had purchased the stamps, a scandal ensued over who actually owned the stamps. Of the pane of 100, only 93 sound examples reached collectors, cat. $17000 (Cat No. 1610c) (Image)

CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction