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EXTREMELY FINE. AN INCALCULABLY RARE VERTICAL STRIP OF 75L5 USED ON A COVER FROM HALE & COMPANY'S NORWICH OFFICE -- A REMARKABLE AND ALMOST CERTAINLY UNIQUE COMBINATION OF PHILATELIC AND POSTAL HISTORY ELEMENTS.
The strip on this cover comes from the Second State of the plate, after the "13 Court St." address was removed, but before the plate was damaged. Although the strip comes from Positions 1/6/11, where the damage occurred, it shows none of the bruising or Position 1 defect, and, therefore, it must be an early printing from the Second State plate.
We can point to five significant components of rarity present in this cover: 1) it bears a strip of three, which is rare; 2) it is a vertical strip of three, which is an even rarer configuration for a Hale multiple, and it comes from the corner of the sheet; 3) it is a strip from the Second State plate, showing the undamaged subjects in Positions 1/6/11; 4) the stamps have the "N" initial (Norwich), which is a very rare form of overprint, presumably for control purposes (it is not a precancel, as it is sometimes called, because the initialed stamps are always cancelled); and 5) the cover has the scarce and distinctive Norwich office handstamp.
Illustrated in Gutman Hale book (color Figure 63 and page 86). Ex Hall. With 2001 P.F. certificate (Image)
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