Feature Lot.
Lot 966 -
1979, $1 Rush Lamp, brown (engraved) inverted (Scott 1610c), a pristine mint example, o.g., never hinged, Very Fine. Only 115 mint Candlestick Inverts are known. Scott $17,000.
A part-sheet of 95 stamps was purchased at the McLean, VA post office by a C.I.A. employee for official Agency mail (the five missing stamps having been previously sold to an unknown buyer or buyers and presumably used on mail and lost to philately). Upon spotting the error, nine employee.... Estimate $12,000-15,000
Sold for US$ 10,000
(Link to this Lot in the Catalog for Bidding)
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