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**12c-90c 1857-60 Issue (Scott 36B-39) continued...**
Lot	Sym.	Lot Description
1269		90c Blue (39). Original gum, rich color on bright paper, wide and balanced margins EXTREMELY FINE. A BEAUTIFUL ORIGINAL-GUM EXAMPLE OF THE 90-CENT 1860 ISSUE. With 2001 P.F. certificate. (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	3,000.00 SOLD for $2,800.00 Will close during Public Auction
1270		90c Blue (39). Slightly disturbed original gum, nicely centered with rich color, trivial gum bend of no great consequence (does not show in fluid), Very Fine and choice (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	3,000.00 SOLD for $1,800.00 Will close during Public Auction
1271		90c Blue (39). Unused (no gum), intense shade and impression, wide and balanced margins, fresh and Extremely Fine Gem, with 2012 P.S.E. certificate (XF-Superb 95, SMQ $2,950.00) (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	1,100.00 SOLD for $2,000.00 Will close during Public Auction
1272		90c Blue (39). Rich color, neat strikes of red grid cancel and black cancel at bottom, tiny perf flaw at bottom left not mentioned on accompanying certificate VERY FINE APPEARANCE. A SCARCE USED EXAMPLE OF THE SHORT-LIVED 90-CENT 1860 ISSUE. The 90c stamp was issued in 1860, along with the 24c and 30c values, all of which were needed to prepay high international letter rates established by various postal treaties. The basic 24c and 30c rates to England, France and Germany created a volume of mail franked with those values. However, the 90c saw much more limited use, partly due to the rates in effect, but more because of the American Civil War. When supplies of current postage stamps were declared invalid in the South and ultimately demonetized by the Federal government, the 90c had been in use for only one year. For this reason, genuinely cancelled copies are scarce, and covers bearing the 90c are extremely rare. Approximately 180 used examples have been certified by The Philatelic Foundation, of which one-quarter are sound. With 1995 P.S.E. certificate (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	11,000.00 SOLD for $3,625.00 Will close during Public Auction

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