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The Harvey Mirsky Collection of the United States 1847 Issue continued...

Double Transfers and other Plate Varieties including Misaligned Entries
Lot Sym. Lot Description  
2081 ng Image5c Brown, Double Transfer Ty. B (1-B). Position 90R1, unused (no gum), full to large margins including right sheet margin, beautiful dark shade and early impression

EXTREMELY FINE. A RARE UNUSED EXAMPLE OF THE 5-CENT 1847 ISSUE WITH THE TYPE B DOUBLE TRANSFER. WE KNOW OF ONLY TWO OTHER UNUSED EXAMPLES OF THIS DISTINCT DOUBLE TRANSFER POSITION.

We record three unused examples of the 5c 1847 Type B Double Transfer: 1) right stamp in pair, showing small part of sheet margin, sound, original gum, ex Frelinghuysen, 2) single with slightly redistributed gum, showing part of sheet margin, small toned spots, small crease, and 3) unused (no gum) with right sheet margin, the example offered here.

With 1996 P.F. certificate. Listed but unpriced as unused in Scott. (Image)

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 E. 3,000-4,000

SOLD for $3,000.00
Will close during Public Auction
2082   Image5c Brown, Double Transfer Ty. A (1-A). Position 80R1, large margins to clear at lower right, portion of adjoining stamp at bottom, rich color, light strike of blue town datestamp leaves double transfer clearly visible, Very Fine, an attractive lightly-cancelled example of this variety, with 1991 P.F. certificate (Image)

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 650.00

SOLD for $375.00
Will close during Public Auction
2083   Image5c Red Brown, Double Transfer Ty. B (1-B). Position 90R1, huge margins all around including right sheet margin, unusual red 5-bar "checkerboard" fancy cancel attributed to the Eastern Railroad route agent, faint crease and faint bleaching described as "light staining" on certificate, these very minor flaws not detracting from Extremely Fine appearance, rare with fancy cancel (among those listed on the 1847 Issue in Chronicle 172), ex Stollnitz and Dr. Morris, with 1996 P.F. certificate (Image)

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 650.00

SOLD for $1,300.00
Will close during Public Auction
2084   Image5c Red Brown, Double Transfer Ty. B (1-B). Positions 89-90R1, horizontal pair, right stamp 90R with double transfer of top and bottom framelines, full margins to barely clear at upper right, rich color, blue grid cancels, Fine-Very Fine and scarce, ex Hillmer, with 1998 P.F. certificate (Image)

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 1,150.00

SOLD for $450.00
Will close during Public Auction
2085   Image5c Red Brown, Double Transfer Ty. B (1-B). Positions 89-90R1, horizontal pair, right stamp 90R with double transfer of top and bottom framelines, large to ample margins including right sheet margin, neat pen strokes cancel, tiny scissors-cut in margin at left, Very Fine, a scarce pair, with 1991 P.F. certificate, Scott Retail as single Ty. B Double Transfer and single with pen cancel (Image)

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 800.00

SOLD for $700.00
Will close during Public Auction
2086   Image5c Orange Brown, Double Transfer Ty. C (1b-C). Horizontal pair, the left stamp with clear double transfer of the bottom frameline and the lower part of the left frameline, full margins, vivid color, blue Philadelphia circular datestamp cancel, right stamp with faint pressed crease

VERY FINE APPEARANCE. AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE HORIZONTAL PAIR WITH THE LEFT STAMP SHOWING THE TYPE C DOUBLE TRANSFER. ONLY TWO PAIRS ARE RECORDED.

In the August 1995 Chronicle, Jerome S. Wagshal summarized previous articles on this double transfer. It was first discovered by Dan Hammatt around 1920. Mr. Wagshal recorded a total of 13-1/2 copies (one is a half-stamp in a strip), including only two pairs. He also echoes Ashbrook's theory that this and the Double Transfer Type D were created when the plate was reworked sometime in late 1850 and were only part of the Fifth Delivery from RWH&E in December 1850. This would account for their scarcity compared to the Type A and B double transfers, and it seems to be confirmed by the two examples known on cover, which were described by Ashbrook as 1851 uses. The distinctive Orange Brown shade also points to the Fifth Delivery.

Ex Caspary, Rust, Stollnitz and Dr. Morris. With 1996 P.F. certificate. Scott Retail as singles (Image)

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 5,000.00

SOLD for $11,000.00
Will close during Public Auction
2087   Image10c Black, Pair of Double Transfer Types A and C (2-A, 2-C). Positions 1-2R1, horizontal pair, left stamp Type A and right stamp Type C, double transfers both visible in right "X", large margins to in, affixed to small blue piece on which it did not originate

ONE OF TWO REPORTED COMBINATION PAIRS OF TYPES A AND C DOUBLE TRANSFERS FROM POSITIONS 1 AND 2 IN THE RIGHT PANE.

With 1998 P.F. certificate. Scott value of $5,000.00 as singles does not reflect the tremendous rarity of the pair containing both double transfers (Image)

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 E. 3,000-4,000

SOLD for $2,100.00
Will close during Public Auction
2088   Image10c Black, Double Transfer Ty. C (2-C). Positions 2-3R1, horizontal pair, left stamp Position 2R double transfer Ty. C in right "X", full margins all around, light strikes of red grid cancel, detailed impression

EXTREMELY FINE. AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE HORIZONTAL PAIR OF THE 10-CENT 1847 ISSUE WITH DOUBLE TRANSFER TYPE C.

With 1994 P.F. certificate. Scott Retail as singles (Image)

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 3,950.00

SOLD for $4,500.00
Will close during Public Auction
2089   Image10c Black, Pair of Double Transfer Types B and D (2-B, 2-D). Positions 31/41R1, vertical pair, top stamp Type B double transfer in "Post Office", "U.S." and top right frameline, bottom stamp Type D double transfer of the bottom and left framelines, huge margins to clear including left sheet margin, bright shade, neat strikes of blue grid cancels, some slight manuscript offset on back, bottom stamp light horizontal crease

FINE-VERY FINE APPEARANCE. THE ONLY RECORDED PAIR OF THE 10-CENT 1847 ISSUE WITH A COMBINATION OF DOUBLE TRANSFER TYPES B AND D.

Vertical pairs of the 1847 issue are much scarcer than horizontal pairs, and the odds of a vertical pair of 10c stamps coming from the only two positions showing the Type B and D Double Transfers (31/41R) are 1 in 180.

Ex Sweet, Stollnitz and Dr. Morris. Scott value of $5,500.00 does not begin to reflect the great rarity of this pair. (Image)

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 E. 5,000-7,500

SOLD for $7,000.00
Will close during Public Auction
2090   Image10c Black, Double Transfer Ty. A (2-A). Position 1R1, full to large margins, intense shade, black grid cancel which leaves the doubling in the right "X" clearly visible, Very Fine and choice, ex Koppersmith, with 1984 and 1998 P.F. certificates (Image)

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 2,200.00

SOLD for $950.00
Will close during Public Auction
2091   Image10c Black, Double Transfer Ty. B (2-B). Position 31R1, double transfer in "Post Office", "U.S." and top right frameline, full to large margins including portion of adjoining stamp at right, intense shade and impression, unobtrusive strike of red grid cancel, small corner crease at bottom right, Extremely Fine appearance, with 1998 P.F. certificate (Image)

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 3,300.00

SOLD for $2,800.00
Will close during Public Auction

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